The News Review:
- New immunisation practices mooted
- Kenya: All for the Populace
- The academic who learned to become a political animal
- AFGHANISTAN: Over half the population at risk of malaria – Health…
- Health Care: Critical Condition
- Obesity, low birth weight mar health of kids
- MP lays foundation for maternity ward
New immunisation practices mooted
Hindu – Apr 26, 2008
Latest instructions from the Directorate were that only village health nurses should collect the vaccine from the storage point. In places where the vaccine was administered, the medical officer concerned, the sector health nurse and the PHC pharmacist should check the vial’s batch number and expiry date. Inspection mandatory
The guidelines also made it mandatory for Deputy Directors of Health Services, along with Assistant Directors and District Maternity and Child Health Officers, to inspect the vaccine distribution process on all Wednesdays when immunisation takes place in PHCs. The Directorate had also made immunisation training to all field level staff mandatory, a health official said.
Kenya: All for the Populace
AllAfrica.com – Apr 26, 2008
She has been involved in research on adolescent sexuality, fertility and reproductive health. Her research interests are in areas of child health and development, maternal health and social aspects of HIV and Aids as well as adolescent sexuality and health, among others. Her works have been published in Demography India, Journal of African Population Studies and Journal of Biosocial Science and in chapters of the book, A Single Mother. Khasakhala, a single mother has a son who is crrently studying for his bachelor’s degree in International Adminstration at the United States International University (USIU). Relevant LinksEast AfricaKenyaSustainable DevelopmentUrban Issues and HabitationShe balances her role as mother and lecturer with the many travels she undertakes to the Secretariat at Accra, and soliciting funds from donors and members.
The academic who learned to become a political animal
Telegraph.co.uk – Apr 26, 2008
After graduating from Cambridge laden with prizes and distinctions, Latchman did a PhD, followed by post-doctoral research. He was then successful in obtaining a lectureship at University College London (UCL), in molecular genetics. Shortly after that, he became the director of a medical molecular biology unit, took a professorship and later became head of the Institute of Child Health (ICH), an organisation closely linked to both UCL and Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital. The pattern of taking on progressively larger administrative roles will be familiar to many academics. “I went from running a unit with a particular interest, to running a department with broader interests, to running an institute in a large building with an array of research. ”Latchman is adamant that he is still very much an academic, but has a pragmatic streak that has seen him develop administrative and man-management skills. “This was true throughout my career,” he says.
AFGHANISTAN: Over half the population at risk of malaria – Health…
Reuters AlertNet – Apr 26, 2008
“It’s a huge problem,” he added. Health specialists warn that any use of anti-malarial drugs such as chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine can badly affect the health of a person not suffering from malaria. “If you give anti-malarial drugs to a pregnant woman or a child it can seriously put their health at risk,” warned Abdul Karim Norzai, a paediatrician in Kabul. Eradication impossible? Ranked the fifth least developed country in the world, Afghanistan does not have adequate resources, or the technical capacity to wipe out the parasite in the foreseeable future, health officials say. The country is trying to control malaria within five years (2007-2012) with a US$28. To control the parasite the MoPH plans to distribute 1.
Health Care: Critical Condition
CNN International – Apr 26, 2008
THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Health care is on the minds of a lot of people this election. There are nearly 50 million people without any health care insurance and millions more who do have coverage, but it’s simply not enough. Our health care system is in critical condition. We’re going to see how we might fix it and how bad it’ll get if we don’t. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Are you OK, mommy? DAWN ZEIGLER, MOTHER: I’m OK, are you OK? GUPTA (voice-over): Dawn Zeigler puts on a brave face for her daughter… GUPTA: Or is it the solution? SEN. EDWARD KENNEDY (D), MASSACHUSETTS: The government has really been a bystander, hasn’t it? GUPTA: It’s easy to say the government deserves some of the blame. We’ll get into that in just a bit, but who are the other suspects behind our broken health care system? Doctors, the pharmaceutical industry, insurance companies? How about you and me? And if our system is broken, what would a different system look like anyway? This new baby came into the world with a frightening lung infection. A week in intensive care, and little Domino is cured. So what’s the bill for this week-long hospital visit? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE) GUPTA: Translation? Nothing at all. That’s because we’re in France, where taxes pay for the government-run health care system, even for the sick. From the crucible of World War II, France, Britain, Canada, not to mention Germany, emerged with government-run health systems.
Obesity, low birth weight mar health of kids
Tehran Times – Apr 26, 2008
children overall have seen improvements in their well-being in recent years, American children aged 6 to 11 are four times more likely to be obese than similarly aged children in the 1960s, the report found. The report, led by researchers at Duke University in North Carolina and the Foundation for Child Development, a private advocacy group, looked at the well-being of children in early childhood, those from birth to age five, and middle childhood, or those aged 6 to 11, from 1994 to 2006. The researchers found obesity among children in middle childhood is nearly four times more common than in children of the same age in a national survey in 1960s. For children aged 2 to 5, it is three times higher. “”These are dramatic increases in the prevalence of overweight children in American society from one generation to the next,”" the researchers wrote. “”The importance of this trend for the health and well-being of children is difficult to exaggerate… For children aged 2 to 5, it is three times higher. “”These are dramatic increases in the prevalence of overweight children in American society from one generation to the next,”" the researchers wrote. “”The importance of this trend for the health and well-being of children is difficult to exaggerate. “”
They said overweight children have greater risks of type 2 diabetes, and often have elevated risk factors associated with heart disease, such as high cholesterol and high blood pressure. They also found that the percentage of babies born with low birth weight rose 12. 3 percent from 1994 to 2005, an increase they said was likely tied to delayed childbearing among working mothers and an increased use of fertility drugs. Low birth weight has been linked in large studies to a higher risk of developmental and learning problems and to lower academic achievement.
MP lays foundation for maternity ward
Hindu – Apr 26, 2008
50-crore plan for developing Kurnool General Hospital would be forwarded for approval
KURNOOL: MP Kotla Jayasurya Prakasa Reddy laid foundation for Maternity Child Health Block costing Rs 3. 77 crore here on Friday. Addressing the meeting, the MP underscored the need for developing the General Hospital with all modern facilities so that patients from the area need not go to Hyderabad for treatment. Doctors exhorted
He called upon doctors to provide the best medicare saying no amount of infrastructure would be of benefit without the commitment of the doctors.
