Recommendations for Increased healthcare resilience through the Federal Budget 2020-21
Health investment in areas like workforce, digital and infrastructure is critical to delivering better health outcomes and is also part of the solution to manage the economic recovery, both for productivity and job creation. PwC Australia recommends investment in...
Australia’s aged care system needs massive investment, damning royal commission report finds
On 1st March 2021, Australia’s Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety tabled a Report: Care Dignity and Respect, which highlighted the declining quality of aged care for elderly Australians due to decreasing funding levels (AU$ 9.8bn cut over two...
Government Slammed for Spending Less on Healthcare, More on Infrastructure
Senior economist Faisal Basri during a webinar on Friday criticized the reduced healthcare budget the government had allocated in the 2021 State Budget (APBN). He highlighted the fact that the healthcare budget had dropped from Rp212.5 trillion in 2020 to...
Analyzing Healthcare Budget Allocation: Effective Utilization and Shortcomings
The budget put forward by the Bangladesh Parliament has allocated a sizable amount to healthcare, which is a BDT 73 billion increase over the previous fiscal year. However, despite the increase of the allocation from the previous year of 23.44% and the...
Malaysia’s healthcare allocation heavily scrutinized
During COVID-19 Malaysia seems to have gone back on its commitments of providing healthcare for its citizens as the medical budget sees a cut of 20.5%. This cut goes across almost all healthcare services resulting in a 74% decrease for...
Center National de la Drépanocytose – The 2021 budget set at over 663 million FCFA
On March 30, the "Antoinette-Sassou- N'Guesso" sickle cell disease national reference center adopted its budget for the 2021 financial year, with revenue and expenditure totalling 663,325,000 CFA francs, during the 4th ordinary session of the management committee...
Center National de la Drépanocytose – The 2021 budget set at over 663 million FCFA
On March 30, the "Antoinette-Sassou- N'Guesso" sickle cell disease national reference center adopted its budget for the 2021 financial year, with revenue and expenditure totalling 663,325,000 CFA francs, during the 4th ordinary session of the management committee...
The Government of Mongolia aims to vaccinate 60 percent of its population by July 2021
Globally, countries are taking action to vaccinate the appropriate size of the population to fight against coronavirus disease as quickly as possible. Mongolia is no exception from the COVID-19 vaccination target. According to the press release from the...
Vietnam’s new regulations on fees for quarantine, diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19
http://news.chinhphu.vn/Home/New-regulations-on-fees-for-quarantine-diagnosis-and-treatment-of-COVID19/20212/42952.vgp
Indian households spent more on food, less on healthcare during first lockdown due to COVID-19
Since June 2020, various studies have suggested that the onset of COVID-19 pandemic in India caused severe disruptions to the food supply chain, large levels of unemployment, an increase in vulnerabilities for migrant workers, and gendered violence at home, among...
Firm commitments to eliminate obstetric fistula by 2030
In order to eliminate obstetric fistula by 2030 in West and Central Africa, several First Ladies of Africa are committed to mobilizing more resources and strengthening their support for the fight against this scourge at the high-level round table on the...
Burkina Faso joins the Global Laboratory Leadership Program
" Global Laboratory Leadership Program (GLLP) or Programme mondial pour le leadership des Laboratoires au Burkina Faso " was born of the collaboration of six international organizations that support the development of laboratory systems worldwide. The...
Burkina Faso joins the Global Laboratory Leadership Program
" Global Laboratory Leadership Program (GLLP) or Programme mondial pour le leadership des Laboratoires au Burkina Faso " was born of the collaboration of six international organizations that support the development of laboratory systems worldwide. The...
Курение в Кот-д’Ивуаре: ежегодные затраты на лечение составляют 28 млрд. франков КФА
В ближайшие 20 лет заболевания, связанные с табаком, приведут к потере производительности труда и затратам на здравоохранение, эквивалентным 12 000 млрд. долларов США во всем мире. В Кот-д'Ивуаре государство ежегодно тратит на лечение заболеваний, связанных с...
Smoking in Côte d’Ivoire: the annual cost of treatment amounts to 28 billion CFA francs
Over the next 20 years, tobacco-related illnesses will result in lost productivity and healthcare costs equivalent to Us$12,000 billion worldwide. In Côte d'Ivoire, the government spends an average of 28 billion CFA francs a year on medical treatment for...