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Alliance News Digest

Week of 22 January 2010

AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST

• Second cardio centre for Ghana - Ghanaian Times. (1/16)
  Centre to train doctors for the diagnosis and treatment of heart-related diseases.
• Nigeria's Problematic Health Insurance Scheme (Op-Ed) - The Guardian, Nigeria. (1/17)
  Nigeria runs a healthcare system that is worse than what they have in Haiti
• Malaria Consortium to improve community health workers performance in Africa – Afrique en ligne. (1/14)
  Limited community involvement, shortages of medicines and lack of training materials are among factors hampering the effectiveness of CBAs
• Kaduna Health Workers Give Govt Ultimatum - Daily Trust, Nigeria. (1/14)
  Government had failed to implement the agreed MOU concerning health workers salaries.
• Babies Dying From Poor Care After Delivery - New Visiton, Uganda. (1/18)
  Health facilities lack equipment and staff to support the mother and baby beyond 24 hours.
• Brain Drain, Funding, Bane of Health Sector – Daily Champion, Nigeria. (1/20)
  Nigeria needs to train more doctors to be able to take care of the health of the population
• Un départ massif des sages-femmes en retraite pénaliserait le métier - Algérie Focus. (1/16)
  Il y a manque de sages-femmes dans les services de santé dû à un départ massif en retraite en dépit du programme de formation tracé par le ministère de tutelle.

ASIA AND PACIFIC

• Govt. planning medical degree course to produce rural doctors – NetIndian News Network. (1/15)
  Government was planning to introduce a three-and-a-half year medical degree course to meet the shortage of doctors in rural areas
• High-strung city has only 400 psychiatrists – Hindustan Times, India. (1/14)
  Mumbai faces severe shortage of psychiatrists
• Innovative and affordable – Hindustan Times, India. (1/14)
  Doctors can now diagnose heart disorders with a simple one-touch operation on a small, handheld device called the MAC i.
• India to turn out 1,750 mental health workers a year – Sify News, India. (1/20)
  Health scheme to address the problem of acute shortage of doctors and health workers for mental health disorders
• An Area Health Centre with lack of water and space - Solomon Star. (1/14)
  Harbour Area Health Centre is the only health outlet that serves people in the central and north Ranoggah
• Rural doctor warning – Weekly Times Now, Australia. (1/19)
  Rural Australia is reliant on overseas-trained doctors
• SA-based national health agency under fire - The Adelaide Independent Weekly, Australia. (1/15)
  The HWA has been assigned the tasks of supporting research, training and workplace reform
• Minister happy with healthy new year - PS News, Australia. (1/16)
  2010 a big year for health reforms

NORTH AMERICA

• In Haiti, aid workers face a dual challenge - Los Angeles Times. (1/15)
  The poor nation has long suffered from a lack of medical care and rampant disease. With the earthquake, aid agencies must build a healthcare system on the fly
• Will IT change how doctors treat you in 2010? - Computer World. (1/4)
  Telehealth tech could allow patients to be monitored wirelessly in real time
• Health Reform Revisionism - Newsweek. (1/12)
  Here's a look at three health crises and how they may have fared under a comprehensive health-care-reform plan.
• For Severely Ill Children, a Dearth of Doctors – Wall Street Journal. (1/12)
  Lower Salaries, Reimbursement Rates Create Shortfall of Specialists; Kenneth's Seven-Month Wait for an Appointment
• The Need for Management Capacity to Achieve VISION 2020 in Sub-Saharan Africa - PLoS Medicinie. (12/8)
  Susan Lewallen and Amir Bedri Kello argue that human resources management will be crucial in reaching the global goal of eliminating avoidable blindness by the year 2020
• Broad Demand for Healthcare Workers Seen in Most US Markets – Health Leaders Media. (1/15)
  The demand for healthcare workers appears to be accelerating in most areas of the nation
• Closing the Health Care Workforce Gap - Center for American Progress. (1/15)
  Reforming Federal Health Care Workforce Policies to Meet the Needs of the 21st Century
• Personnel infirmier dans l'Est-du-Québec: pénurie majeure en vue – Le Soleil, Canada. (1/16)
  La pénurie d'infirmières atteindra une période critique dans deux ou trois ans.
• 'Serious threats to jobs' fuel health negotiations - Victoria Times Colonist, Canada. (1/17)
  Government vow of no wage hikes makes talks complex: union exec .

EUROPE

• Busy maternity units turn away hundreds of women in labour – The Times, UK. (1/16)
  Reasons for the temporary closure or suspension of services included shortages of midwives or beds
• The Accelerated Child Survival and Development programme in west Africa: a retrospective evaluation - The Lancet, UK. (1/12)
  UNICEF contracted the Institute for International Programs of the Johns Hopkins University to undertake a retrospective evaluation of the ACSD programme to validate results
• 40 per cent more nurses join dole queue - The Mirror, UK. (1/17)
  Hospitals are hiring part-time agency workers to save money
• Fears for health service as cuts loom - Belfast NewsLetter, UK. (1/15)
  Patients want to see more nurses, not fewer.
• Governo admite contratar mais médicos estrangeiros em 2010 - RCM Pharma, Portugal. (1/19)
  Novas contratações no Uruguai e em Cuba para reforçar os serviços das áreas metropolitanas de Lisboa e do Porto
• Trabajadores del Hospital de A Coruña denuncian la falta de personal - La Opinión, Coruña, Spain. (1/16)
  El Centro de Atención Especializada critica la "inoperancia" de la Gerencia del Hospital
• Health workers on national strike today – Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey. (1/18)
  The one-day national strike is organized as a protest to the new law for healthcare workers.
• L’hôpital, le grand raté des 35 heures – Le Parisien, France. (1/18)
  Aujourd’hui, les 35 heures restent toujours en partie virtuelles : du fait des pénuries persistantes de soignants

LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN

• Reconocen labor de enfermeras – El Informador, Mexico. (1/13)
  En Jalisco, 17 mil 500 enfermeras trabajan en las diferentes instituciones de salud.
• Honduras: Ampliar cobertura el reto en salud – La Prensa, Honduras. (1/11)
  Una de las soluciones es obligar a los cesamos a que atiendan hasta las siete de la noche
• Enfermeras mantendrán sus medidas por conflicto con ASSE - El Espectador, Uruguay. (1/11)
  This is the description test
• El Colegio de Enfermeras decidió mantener el conflicto con ASSE, ante la falta de respuesta en cuanto a sus reclamos
  El Colegio de Enfermeras decidió mantener el conflicto con ASSE, ante la falta de respuesta en cuanto a sus reclamos
• Hospitales dominicanos, repletos de haitianos – El Universal, Mexico. (1/16)
  El personal médico no da abasto en hospital fronterizo con Haití..
• Fies poderá ser pago com trabalho - Tribuna do Norte, Brazil. (1/16)
  Os formandos em medicina que optarem por ingressar em programa de residência médica também serão beneficiados
• Falta de médicos retrasa atención a damnificados: ONG – El Financiero, Mexico. (1/15)
  Informa la CICR que la infraestructura médica está en un nivel "límite"
• "Machadadas" no SNS levam profissionais a fugir para privados - Rádio Renascença, Brazil. (1/18)
  Recentes medidas da actual ministra para atrair clínicos ao interior do país onde é maior a carência destes profisionais
• Novos empreendimentos na Amazônia ameaçam sobrevivência dos índios – Terra Brazil. (1/14)
  o relatório, que aponta a carência de assistência médica adequada e a falta de vacinação regular.

NEWS FROM WHO AND PARTNERS

• PAHO/WHO Coordinating Regional Efforts to Assist Haiti after Earthquake - PAHO/WHO. (1/14)
  Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean offer an outpouring of support
• Overcrowded Hospital Wards: Performing Caesarean Sections on a Park Bench – UNFPA. (1/18)
  UNFPA estimates that about 37,000 women among the affected population are pregnant and in need of maternal health services.
• Survey Shows Attention Required to Keep Ugandan Nurses in the Profession - International Council of Nurses. (1/11)
  The severe workload challenges faced by nursing in Uganda are impacting patient care and health outcomes
• Merlin joins call to address critical health worker shortages - Merlin, UK. (1/15)
  Merlin along with over 20 other organisations has signed a letter from the HWAI calling to strengthe the Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel
• Haiti: The health issues right now - Merlin, UK. 1/15)
  The lack of surviving qualified health care staff is proving a huge challenge
• Field Hospital Supported by the Government of Canada now Deployed in Haiti – CIDA. (1/18)
  The hospital, set up in Port-au-Prince, will help the Canadian Red Cross provide health and medical care to Haitians affected
• Scaling up proven public health interventions through a locally owned and sustained leadership development programme in rural Upper Egypt – HRH Journal. (1/19)
  In 2003, the Egypt Ministry of Health and Population faced the challenge of improving access to and quality of services in rural Upper Egypt

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