Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) The Ghana Health Services Board has called on health professionals to agree to be posted to any part of the country, especially to disadvantaged communities. According to the council, this would allow them…
Held virtually, the program will familiarize healthcare professionals with IT and cybersecurity standards, and educate them on common potential risks and how to mitigate them. It will also raise awareness of the roles and responsibilities of individual members within the…
THE families of healthcare workers who died from Covid will each receive €100,000 under a new scheme to be agreed by Cabinet. Health Minister Stephen Donnelly will present a note to Cabinet outlining the scheme, which will be open to…
In an industrial corner of downtown near the Los Angeles River, a mental health response team went in search of a man described only as wearing a blue shirt.Strapped to a seat in the back, Rafael Arias Delgado, 34, a…
Denpasar, February 25, 2022 – Indonesian Minister of Health, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, and Coordinating Minister of Maritime Affairs and Investment, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, assured on Friday February 25 that Bali's health institutions are ready to support the events of the…
PESHAWAR: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination, Dr Faisal Sultan said on Friday that the top priority of the incumbent government was to provide better health care to the masses. Speaking on…
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) have released new guidance on developing and implementing stronger occupational health and safety programs for health workers . In a press release, the WHO said the agencies recommend programs…
For Pamela Dubyak, an assistant professor of health psychology at Penn State, she has seen students often go to the emergency room – at Mount Nittany Medical Center – for illnesses or problems that could easily be solved in a…
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A legislative push to extend health worker protections another year to avoid COVID-19 liability lawsuits is on its way to Governor Ron DeSantis signing off. The bill builds on protections for healthcare workers and hospitals passed…
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Thousands of health workers, including Covid contact tracers and testing lab staff, have voted to strike across the country as Omicron cases are expected to peak soon.Scientist in the lab (file image) (Source: istock.com)By Justin Hu Public health allied, scientific…
Doctors for Ethiopia called on Ethiopians, all concerned friends of Ethiopia, to restore the health facilities destroyed by the terrorist TPLF in a coordinated and well-organized manner. The destruction of health facilities across Ethiopia hurts everyone and must also be…
New Jersey, United States,- The quantitative data presented in this Acute Hospital Care Market The report helps forecast future profits, revenue, and market presence. Statistics are used to generate this type of data. The qualitative data presented here is extremely…
More than a thousand Manila Health Department (MHD) employees have started undergoing their Annual Physical Examination (APE) in the city. The Manila city government, led by Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso, has prioritized health programs not only for city residents,…
DC Attorney General Karl Root filed a lawsuit against a company operating assisted living facilities for its alleged failure to pay employees full overtime for their extra work during the COVID-19 crisis. The defendant is Azure Healthcare Services which previously…
Legislation to be passed by California lawmakers this year aims to improve transgender medical care across the state. This would require healthcare professionals who interact with transgender, gender non-conforming, and intersex patients to receive cultural competency training, and healthcare providers…
Nashville plans to expand an experimental model that pairs mental health professionals with police after the program's first seven months show promising results.The Partners in Care program pairs master's-level mental health clinicians with officers from the Metro Nashville Police Department…
Most consumers generally access health care through their primary care physician or primary care physician. In fact, 61% of consumers have visited their primary or primary care physician in the past 12 months, either in person or online, according to…
Experiences of discrimination and racism prevent young Asians from accessing health services, according to a study just published in the New Zealand Medical Journal (4 February). Other factors, such as poverty and lack of social support, also impact access to…
Brooke Menschel, an attorney with Brooklyn Defender Services, said the organizations had received hundreds of reports over the past few years from people who the Department of Correction said had refused medical treatment but said they had in fact not…
People were less likely to seek medical help for self-harm and suicidal behavior during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, according to new research published in the medRxiv* preprint server. In the first half of 2021, there was an overall…
More than three months later, he is still in prison in Racine. The state says there is no room for him in any of the facilities he was supposed to have been transferred to months ago. Sandoval Tamir Williams, 34,…
415 attacks on health care in Myanmar during year of crackdown after military coup: report Ahead of February 1 coup anniversary, new report sheds light on brutal violence by Myanmar armed forces against health workers and health facilities January 26,…
Operating across vast geographic distances, Australian rural healthcare providers face a significant challenge in reaching their patients to provide them with the care they need. In order to combat this problem, the Gippsland Health Alliance (GHA), a consortium of all…
Most infected healthcare workers contract the virus for the second time, despite two doses of vaccines January 24, 2022, 10:15 p.m. Last modification: January 25, 2022, 00:10 Representative image. File photo: Salahuddin Ahmed/TBS"> Representative image. File photo: Salahuddin Ahmed/TBS The…
Director of Health Services of Kashmir (DHSK), Dr. Mushtaq Ahmad Rather, on Thursday thanked the UT administration headed by Lt. Governor, Manoj Sinha and Additional Chief Secretary for Health and medical education, Vivek Bhardwaj for their continued support in achieving…
Officials are asking for $36 million for a cost-of-living adjustment. This would increase the pay rate by nearly 20% for mental and behavioral health care providers. Knoxville, Tenn. — It's no secret that the cost of living has gone up…
Photo by Carlo Manalansan / Bulatlat By RAQUEL ALVAREZBulatlat.com MANILA — A group of community medicine advocates are reiterating calls for legislation that will tackle the country's fragmented public health system as the number of new COVID-19 cases continues to…
Odisha Health Department on Thursday ordered all medical colleges and hospitals, district headquarters hospitals, Bhubaneswar capital hospital and Rourkela government hospital to use telemedicine effectively to provide medical care to patients given the surge in Covid cases."Given the current COVID-19…
Acute labor shortages are seen across the spectrum of Queensland's health services, from general practice to hospitals and residential care for the elderly, with the worst of the Omicron wave of COVID-19 yet future.Key points:Peak Omicron wave in Queensland not…
According to the WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari, the Organization is following the escalating crisis "with great concern". So far, 11 incidents have been confirmed in the capital, Khartoum, and other cities. "Most of these…
Paramedics in the Okanagan and across British Columbia have long called for more resources, but the current wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is renewing those calls again. "We've added a lot of resources, but we're still seeing these shortages," said…
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA - "Sinasabi nila on social media kami daw ang bida, pero sa totoong buhay hindi naman." (On social media, they say we're the heroes, but they don't treat us as such in real…
THE death of an infant due to compromised medical ethics at a Dhaka hospital raises the issue of oversight of private sector health facilities. As the mother of the critically ill twins was unable to pay the bills at Amar…
Bev Jefferson's husband, Troy Robertson, was due to receive his 43rd round of chemotherapy at Royal Hobart Hospital this weekend.Key points:Rapid increase in COVID cases is causing delays for those seeking hospital treatmentWADA says elective elective surgeries are 'very likely'…
Community health workers in rural Nigeria without formal medical training can successfully identify, treat and refer cases of malnutrition in children under five using simplified tools and having received training, study finds conducted by Malaria Consortium in the State of…
KOLKATA: Several cases of clustered Covid infections among doctors and other health workers in Bengal hospitals - particularly in Calcutta - have threatened to bring health services to their knees, prompting the state government to consider shortening the mandatory isolation…
FARGO - The single mom was homeless, unemployed, and unfamiliar with the bureaucratic maze she would have to navigate to access health care and support services.But she had Autumn Waverek, a community health worker, by her side. Waverek helped the…
Deputy Health Minister Datuk, Dr Noor Azmi Ghazali speaks to the media after inspecting three flood-affected health clinics in Hulu Langat on December 30, 2021. - Bernama pic HULU LANGAT, Dec 30 – Repair works of health clinics (KK) and…
RAISING DUES Private hospitals have long complained of late payments from PhilHealth for claims, which had soared to more than 21.1 billion pesos by mid-2021. —PHOTO OF APPLICANT FILE MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) has extended…
PESHAWAR: The authorities have decided to outsource primary and secondary health facilities in areas where health indicators are not up to par. A notification, issued by the health secretary on December 24, called on relevant officials to make recommendations in…
By Molly Pledger IMC student Dr. Hubert Spears, a physician on the University of Mississippi University Health Services staff, is passionate about people and doing good in his community. Spears, 66, graduated from the University of Mississippi. He was born…
PESHAWAR: The Covid-19 epidemic prompted the government to modernize health facilities, especially intensive care services that were only available in a few hospitals before the pandemic hit the province. The Peshawar Institute of Cardiology (PIC), whose construction began in 2005…
Sandusky County residents urged to be vigilant ahead of Christmas, stay home if unwell, and test for COVID-19 at home or at doctors' offices and pharmacies during the holiday season .Health care providers across the county issued a call to…
LAHORE - Punjab (CS) Chief Secretary Kamran Ali Afzal made a surprise visit to DHQ Hospital, Allied Hospital in Faisalabad on Sunday and inspected emergency, urology, surgery, dengue fever and various others. According to official sources, he inspected medical facilities,…
Lamenting that the federal and provincial governments have neglected the health needs of Karachiites in recent years, health experts and political leaders have called for bringing health sector actors together on a platform and coming up with a strategy to…
PESHAWAR: The Ministry of Health has started its duties to manage the underutilized primary and secondary health care facilities in some districts of the province under a public-private partnership in accordance with the laws in force of the provincial government.…
Focus UP, a team of mental health service users, highlighted the lack of privacy at Orchard House and the concerning noise levels at Clinique Pinel as some of the current issues at the facilities. The group's comments came after Senator…
New Delhi: Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Mansukh Mandaviya has inaugurated numerous patient-centric facilities at Safdarjung Hospital here today. It inaugurated a child and elderly care center in the new hospital block, the third PM-CARES pressure swing adsorption oxygen…
SRINAGAR: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and Union Minister of AYUSH and Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated the first batch of BUMS at Government Unani Medical College Ganderbal today. Lt Governor and Union Minister AYUSH Inaugurate 1st Batch of…
On Friday, the Punjab unit of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) attacked the state government and said that, just like previous dispensations, the ruling Congress government had "completely wiped out" the public health system of the state. Opposition (LoP) Leader…
Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Shri Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurated many patient-centric facilities at Safdarjung Hospital here today. It inaugurated a child and elderly care center in the new hospital block, the third PM-CARES pressure swing adsorption oxygen plant…
Firozabad: On the night of September 13, three-year-old Abhi Savita arrived at the State Medical College in Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh, for treatment with his parents and uncle. Abhi’s body temperature was very high and he was unconscious. The child was…
BY REBECCA KUKU The National Association of Physicians requests the Ministry of Health and the provincial NCD health authority to build a metropolitan NCD hospital, district hospitals and urban clinics around the district. The association's secretary, Dr Sam Yockopua, told…
Premier Brian Pallister announced details Monday on how the Manitoba government plans to spend $812 million to build, expand and renovate health care facilities across the province. The money, previously announced in this year's provincial budget, will be split among…
CHITWAN, AUGUST 22State Minister for Health and Population, Umesh Shrestha, said 20,000 medical professionals and health workers would need to be recruited from government health facilities across the country to meet the demand.During a program held today at Bharatpur Hospital,…
HYDERABAD: The Sindh Department of Health is taking over administrative control of seven taluka headquarters hospitals and 104 rural health centers (RHCs) from Integrated Health Services (IHS), a health care group. Sindh Director General of Health Services, Dr Irshad Memon…
Star gymnast and fan favorite Simone Biles has chosen to take a step back from the U.S. team gymnastics final of the Tokyo Olympics, citing mental health issues, a decision that doctors and fellow gymnasts have applauded. "I just felt…
Star gymnast and fan favorite Simone Biles chose to take a step back from the US team gymnastics final at the Tokyo Olympics, citing mental health concerns, a decision doctors and other gymnasts have applauded. “I just felt like it…
Star gymnast and fan favorite Simone Biles has chosen to take a step back from the U.S. team gymnastics final of the Tokyo Olympics, citing mental health issues, a decision that doctors and fellow gymnasts have applauded. "I just felt…
Reopening of schools with special needs urged to support developmental needs Paediatricians and public health doctors from the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland are calling for the reopening of schools, especially specialist schools, to be prioritized to meet developmental…
In California, Governor Gavin Newsom's business owners are fined and arrested to open and do business, while convicted felons are released from jails and jails. Public health physicians, even if not in a medical practice, should always adhere to "Primum…
Public health doctors are on the front line of the national fight against Covid-19, working seven days a week on complex cases and chains of transmission in nursing homes, schools and factories, explains Dr Ina Kelly. Kelly, who chairs the…
(Reuters Health) - “Crisis pregnancy centers” look and act like healthcare clinics, but fail to meet medical and ethical standards, often using biased and inaccurate information to persuade women not to get abort, according to two national groups of physicians.According…