SINGAPORE – Nightingale Nursing Home, which made headlines last year for mistreating an elderly patient, has gotten itself into hot water again – this time for flouting employment laws.
According to The Straits Times (ST), the home was slapped with 31 charges of illegal deployment of foreign workers and one charge of the false declaration of [...]
INDONESIA – Any individual who deliberately prevents mothers who wish to breast-feed their babies may face punishment of a year in prison and a maximum of Rp 100 million (US$10,900) in fines, a medical expert says.
Utami Rusli, a member of the Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI), wasquoted by kompas.com as saying that the regulation was stipulated [...]
INDONEIA – The government has introduced a new parameter in its latest demographic and health survey in an attempt to capture a more accurate figure of the country’s total fertility rate.
The 2012 Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey (SDKI), which was launched early this week, is set to be completed by July. The latest survey was [...]
INDONESIA – The government is planning to empower community health centers across the country to help provide medical treatment for people in rural areas and promote the importance of healthcare.
This will form part of efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set for 2015.
Health Minister Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih acknowledged on Monday that healthcare services [...]
EUROPE is known the world over for its universal public healthcare systems. But these systemsare at risk of becoming financially unviable and suffering from a lack of human resources to deliver the required care.
In the face of demographic change and financial austerity, we must rethink the way we deliver, organise and finance healthcare. Fundamental reform [...]
NEW DELHI – There is a sudden rush among youths in India to donate sperm, thanks to the movie “Vicky Donor” that took only 125 minutes to do something which years of consulting could not accomplish — convincing educated youths to donate sperm.
A Bollywood romantic comedy film directed by Shoojit Sircar, “Vicky Donor” is based [...]
JAKARTA, Indonesia – The country aims to reduce raw material imports for manufacturing medicine to keep costs down.
Indonesian Health Ministry’s Pharmaceutical and Medical Equipment Division director-general Maura Linda Sitanggang said here today that imports now stood at 96 per cent and that the ministry aimed to bring it down by 5%t yearly.
The bulk of the [...]
THE Philippine embassy in Washington D.C. has denounced a recent remark made by District of Columbia Councilmember Marion Barry, criticising local hospitals for hiring Filipino nurses.
Philippine Ambassador to the United States Jose Cuisia has demanded Barry to apologise to Filipino nurses for his “deplorable” remark.
According to a Washington Post report, the Council member was quoted [...]
SINGAPORE – Private hospitals urgently need to recruit medical workers, including nurses and physicians, in a bid to strengthen their businesses and prepare for the intense competition in the healthcare industry expected when the Asean Economic Community (AEC) becomes effective in 2015.
Meanwhile, premium private hospitals have teamed up with medical and nursing schools in countries [...]
SINGAPORE – A national health record database rolled out last April to provide one-stop medical-record access to health-care institutions could soon be accessed by patients themselves.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) told my paper that plans are in the pipeline to provide patients with some access to health information on the National Electronic Health Record (NEHR).
MOH [...]
