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Digitally connected care for safety
Oped, Raphael Itah, Published on 19/09/2023
» Patient safety, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), is one of the fundamental components in delivering quality healthcare and an important goal towards achieving Universal Health Care (UHC) across the world. Therefore, quality health services should be effective, safe, and patient-centric. To realise the benefits of quality health care, health services must be timely, equitable, integrated, and efficient.
Fitting Tina tribute
Oped, Postbag, Published on 02/06/2023
» Re: "The remarkable lady from Nutbush", (PostScript, May 28).
Drug resistance is killing millions
Oped, Sonali Johnson, Published on 07/07/2022
» Some 1.27 million people died in 2019 directly as a result of infection because the bacteria causing the infection were resistant to the drugs designed to kill them, according to a recent study in The Lancet; overall, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is estimated to have contributed directly or indirectly to the premature, preventable deaths of nearly five million people in 2019.
An Olympic-sized Covid-19 risk
Oped, Takatoshi Ito, Published on 18/06/2021
» In 2020, Asia -- especially East Asia -- was often touted as a model of effective pandemic response. While Western countries endured harsh lockdowns and soaring infection and death rates, Asian countries largely kept the coronavirus under control. But the tables have turned, with East Asia now lagging far behind the United States and Europe on vaccinations. This does not bode well for this summer's Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo.