PHM-Exch> Fwd: Bulletin #45: Ongoing shortages undermine right to health

[Health PD]

This fortnight   The Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO)
closed another meeting with the outlook of continuing discussions on the
International Health Regulations and the Pandemic Treaty. Jyotsna Singh
from the People’s Health Movement talks about the ways in which the
pandemic has influenced these discussions in a new video interview. A
severe shortage of doctors has reached new highs in Egypt. The shortage has
been exacerbated by factors such as low salaries and poor worki

Bulletin #45: Ongoing shortages undermine right to health
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By People's Health Dispatch – 2 Mar 2023 – View online →
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This fortnight

The Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) closed another
meeting with the outlook of continuing discussions on the International
Health Regulations and the Pandemic Treaty. Jyotsna Singh from the People’s
Health Movement talks about the ways in which the pandemic has influenced
these discussions in a new video interview
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/dbe656f0?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
.

A severe shortage of doctors has reached new highs in Egypt
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/9f5cb90b?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>.
The shortage has been exacerbated by factors such as low salaries and poor
working conditions. It is impacting access to care for patients, and raises
questions about how problems related to the health workforce are being
addressed.

In the United States, the infant formula shortage
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/58654a94?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
has reached its one-year mark. Parents across the country are still facing
difficulties in finding the formula their babies need, with high costs for
those who can find it. We explore the reasons behind the shortage and its
impact on families.

Turkey
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/a6bb546a?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
is struggling in the aftermath of two strong earthquakes which occurred at
the beginning of February. Health workers and public health experts remain
concerned about the long-lasting consequences of the earthquakes, and Cuban
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/aa8be752?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
health workers have arrived to the affected areas to support care delivery.

Health workers in the United Kingdom are taking action to demand better
working conditions and patient care. The latest announcement has come from
junior doctors
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/52f71c0b?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>,
who are planning to go on strike mid-March.

The last episode
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/d69a234f?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
of the *Global Health Watch* podcast brings reflections by Remco Van de Pas
and Sulakshana Nandi on Universal Health Coverage and Primary Health Care.

In *Data speaks*, we turn our attention to maternal health, with a report
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/09abd041?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
by the United Nations that shows major setbacks in global efforts to reduce
maternal mortality. The COVID-19 pandemic has made it even more difficult
for women to access essential healthcare services, leading to worrying
trends in maternal health.
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*Video: At World Health Organization, the future of health care is being
decided, and contested
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/4b3d1dd0?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

Jyotsna Singh of the People’s Health Movement talks about the key debates
at the World Health Organization that will frame the future of health care
policy and the concerns raised by countries of the Global South

<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/e02b8729?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
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Featured articles

*Egypt’s shortage of doctors reaches new highs
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/89d5c9ff?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

In 2022, over 4,000 doctors in Egypt’s public health system resigned from
their jobs as salaries remained low and working conditions exhausting

*One year of baby formula shortage in the US
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/9d78b397?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

Families in the US are struggling with the effects of an infant formula
shortage caused by over-reliance on commercial milk formula producers and
absence of support for breastfeeding and human milk banks

*Death toll from earthquake may touch 100,000
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/8052b7c2?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

Dr. Vedat Bulut of Turkish Medical Association talks about how the
situation in Turkey worsened because of lack of preparedness from the
government’s end.
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Short reads

*New UN report shows major setbacks in maternal health
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/8f8482ad?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

The numbers from a report by UN agencies indicate that after progress had
been made in the period from 2000 to 2015, maternal mortality indicators
stagnated in the four years that followed

*Health workers’ actions in UK escalate as junior doctors announce strike
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/29b77a80?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

Junior doctors from the British Medical Association are the latest in line
to announce industrial action over government disregard and deterioration
of working conditions

*Cuban medical brigades bring relief to earthquake-hit areas of Turkey
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/3d6b6844?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

Cuban health workers on an open-ended mission in Turkey provide primary
health care and surgeries to residents of earthquake-hit areas of the
country
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Global Health Watch podcast

*Universal Health Coverage
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/94ae81b6?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

The final episode of the GHW6 podcast series features Remco Van de Pas and
Sulakshana Nandi. They provide an up-to-date analysis of the global state
of the debates around Universal Health Coverage and Primary Health Care,
finding that UHC is everywhere and PHC has become stuck in the margins.
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Data speaks
Source: Trends in maternal mortality 2000 to 2020: estimates by WHO,
UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group and UNDESA/Population Division. Available
at: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240068759

After an initial reduction in maternal mortality rates between 2000 and
2015, maternal health indicators stagnated in the four years that followed.
In 2020 alone, 287,000 women died during pregnancy or childbirth, with high
regional disparities still dominating the map. Sub-Saharan Africa recorded
70 percent of all recorded maternal deaths. Nigeria accounted for more than
one fourth of the global number of maternal deaths, with 82,000 women
losing their lives at childbirth or during pregnancy.
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