A recent study conducted by the Health Economics Unit of the Bangladesh Ministry of Health highlights cost differences between treatments of COVID patients in public versus private facilities. For example, while the average cost of ICU treatment in the public sector...
The WHO European Centre for PHC in Almaty, Kazakhstan is hosting an expert discussion on COVID-19-related challenges for health systems and the foundational role of primary health care in addressing them. The next "Let's Talk Primary Health Care" event will be held...
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Malaysia's government enacted a new emergency law allowing it to use funds derived from oil and gas contributions to pay for vaccine procurement, as it looks to ramp up its COVID-19 vaccination programme. The trust fund takes contributions from state...
An additional RM 2 Billion allocation is needed for the National Covid-19 Immunization Programme (NCIP) due to increased costs to procure the Covid-19 vaccine and the costs to administer the programme. Programme coordinating Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said that taking...
The Department of Labor and Employment said COVID-19 has been included in the list of occupational and work-related diseases. This means workers who were infected by the virus could receive compensation via the Employees' Compensation Commission (ECC) provided they...
The National Health Security Office (NHSO) is preparing to roll out assistance to people who have suffered side effects from Covid-19 vaccines. While vaccines could help decrease the number of Covid-19 patients in hospitals and ease the burden on the...
The Cabinet has approved a THB3.75-billion fund for National Health Security Office (NHSO) health units to combat the Covid-19 emergency as part of the government’s THB1-trillion package to fight the pandemic. It will cover the cost of Covid-19 services in hospitals...
Health insurance premiums are expected to grow 1.59 percent this year amid worries over the Covid-19 outbreak says the Thai Insurance Commission with total premiums expected to rise to Bt101 billion in 2021, compared to Bt99 billion last year. Uncertainty over...
Three loan agreements were submitted to the National Assembly for ratification, representing a total of 39,901,000,000 FCFA. This funding will help mitigate the socio-economic effects of the pandemic in Burkina Faso, strengthen the capacity for prevention, detection...
Written by Eunkyoung Kim and Tomas Roubal The Republic of Korea (ROK) has been regarded as one of successful countries in their response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). As of 28 April 2021, ROK has reported 120,673 cumulative confirmed COVID-19 cases...
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare structural weaknesses in the domestic public health systems in place in the US and EU member states. In the US the debate and implementation on Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (‘Obamacare’) will undoubtedly continue. In...
It is expected that countries allocate a vaccine indemnification fund for procuring COVID-19 vaccine form the COVAX facility that essentially gives indemnity to vaccine makers if their COVID-19 shots cause adverse side-effects but more importantly secures...
До начала пандемии несколько африканских стран находились в процессе распространения положений о всеобщем охвате населения услугами здравоохранения (ВОМЗ). Пандемия не поставила под сомнение цели, которые ставит перед собой CSU, напротив, кризис можно...
