#healthcare infrastructure

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Jamshedpur MLA Demands Health Minister's Removal Over MGM Crisis

Roy cites overcrowding, water shortage at MGM Hospital; urges CM to take action MLA Saryu Roy calls for Health Minister’s dismissal due to deteriorating conditions at MGM Hospital in Jamshedpur. JAMSHEDPUR – Saryu Roy, Jamshedpur East MLA, demands Health Minister’s removal over worsening conditions at MGM Hospital. Jamshedpur East MLA Saryu Roy has publicly called for the dismissal of the Health…

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California's Homelessness Crisis: Addressing the Tragedy of Unhoused Individuals and Mental Health Reform

In the heart of California, where dreams are often synonymous with palm-lined streets and golden sunsets, there exists a shadowed reality that has long eluded the postcard image – the homelessness crisis. The scale of this epidemic is staggering, with tho

In the heart of California, where dreams are often synonymous with palm-lined streets and golden sunsets, there exists a shadowed reality that has long eluded the postcard image – the homelessness crisis. The scale of this epidemic is staggering, with thousands of vulnerable individuals left to weather the harshness of the streets each night. California’s Homelessness Crisis and Mental Health…

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International Health Day 2023: Health Is a Human Right Ensure It for All

On 7th April, the world is going to observe International Health Day to commemorate the 75th founding anniversary of the World Health Organisation in 1948, with a view to promoting healthier lifestyles across the globe with the slogan “health for all.” As we continue to face numerous health challenges, the need to promote health and mental and physical well-being is now more crucial than ever.…

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CM ANNOUNCES TO SPRUCE UP GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE INFRASTRUCTURE ACROSS THE STATE

CM ANNOUNCES TO SPRUCE UP GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE INFRASTRUCTURE ACROSS THE STATE

MOVE AIMED AT PROVIDING STATE OF THE ART MEDICAL TREATMENT AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES TO PEOPLE DEDICATES NEWLY CONSTRUCTED MOTHER AND CHILD HOSPITAL AT JAGROAN Jagroan, November 1- Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday announced to spruce up government healthcare infrastructure across the state for providing state of the art medical treatment and diagnostic services to people. “During…

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I have a request for people with experience with wheelchairs, if you personally use/used them or have people in your life that do: PLEASE COMPLAIN ABOUT THEM TO ME! TELL ME ABOUT THE WAYS IN WHICH THEY CAN SUCK! IN GENERAL OR SPECIFICS!

I need this information for a project I'm doing in my design class, wherein my group is going to attempt to prototype a wheelchair with both offroad and indoor capabilities, per say, that is still reasonably light and inexpensive. I'm asking this of you all on tumblr because to begin our project, we need to familiarize ourselves with the nature of this problem. We want our solution to actually be made with the opinions of wheelchair users in mind. I would be incredibly grateful if anyone could reblog or comment with any gripes they have about wheelchairs, especially in relation to their maneuverability, but anything works! Thank you so much for your time!

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Inevitably, when bridge and highway protests happen, someone pulls up a report (original article) about an ambulance or organ transplant that couldn’t get through. These seem like, and maybe are, genuine concerns but I want to highlight three things:

1. Protestors often let ambulances through.

2. The purpose of protest is to disrupt. And I don’t just mean disrupt traffic or even civil norms, I also mean power and narratives of power.

What happens when, in our minds, we hold a kidney transplant speeding down a road in San Francisco alongside the 117 health facilities (21 hospitals, 41 ambulances, 53 clinics) that Israel has targeted as of the 15th, in addition to not only ceasing electricity but preventing the pittance of fuel let through the Rafah crossing from going to hospitals or sewage or water, while laying siege on numerous hospitals, shooting anyone who leaves those hospitals, bombing medicine stores and water lines into hospitals, deploying white phosphorus, in addition to leveling entire neighborhoods? Rendering the medical system as merely first-aid? Intentionally generating a sewage crisis to foment a public health disaster? All of this in an ongoing pandemic during which Israel denied vaccines to Palestinians?

What happens when we say: in this metropole, in this heart of empire, my life is no more valuable than a Palestinian’s? A life-saving treatment, the protection of an incubator, the expediancy with which I am served, the rare and precious donated organ is the right of all? That urgency is a luxury the West manufactures and ringfences for itself? That moralistic appeals to the disabled and the ill and those who love us should always, in the same breath, apply to Palestinians?

3. And so, rather than this meaning “it’s OK if an American dies from lack of care due to this action,” we are being asked to consider what power means, and who holds it: these disruptions, if and when they actually happen, demonstrate that the power to make it stop does not lie with protestors. Even if they throw their keys off the bridge. The power to make it stop lies with the US government. It can stop this—all of this, since we have established that an American life has an equal right to existance as a Palestinian’s—if it calls for a ceasefire. It can stop this if it divests from the murder machine that is both itself and Israel.

[silvermoon424]

I was just made aware of this petition for Kamala Harris to agree to back a ceasefire and arms embargo regarding the Israel/Palestine conflict. The petition has already reached its goal for signatures, but more can't hurt!

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I need y'all to understand something about US health care: providers WILL NOT tell you how much an appointment or procedure costs prior to authorizing payment from your insurance. You could be about to pay a hundred dollars or a thousand and you will not know in advance.

Some providers can give you a "good faith estimate" by mail (never! over! the phone!) but it's not guaranteed to be accurate and they'll always tell you to contact your insurance.

I currently have a high-deductible plan, so we've been paying out of pocket for my ADHD testing. I have a psychiatrist telehealth appointment to talk about medication to treat it. They will not tell me how much that appointment will cost, even if I am paying out of pocket. I know it will be several hundred dollars, but how many hundred? It's a mystery.

USA! USA! USA!

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Love (cannot emphasis how much sarcasm there is in that word) that an official Canadian government response to high cellphone rates is to switch carriers.

Switch it to what? We basically have three companies since one was allowed to eat the forth (with the government saying it wasn't anti-competition and the company eating the other pinky promising they wouldn't jack rates up). Even the smaller companies have to rent infrastructure from the Big Three so there's only so much they can do if that rent costs an arm and a leg.

And that's not touching on how many "small companies" are actually just subsidiaries of the Big Three. You may save $5 but you're still with Telus/Rogers/Bell.

Or that the actual small companies tend to have shit coverage because they don't have the infrastructure available to them and are prevented from getting it. Or their traffic is throttled in favour of the Big Three's customers. Or both.

Or that they're extremely regional thus aren't an option for a huge chunk of Canada's population.

We have no true options and the government has shown time and again that they're fine with monopolies, in multiple industries, and don't care when said monopolies jack up prices to make shareholders and the c-suite more money at the expense of everyone else. At most there will be a verbal slap on the wrist and a giftcard for $25 that people have to register for, for a decade and a half of price gouging.

It's not talked a whole lot about outside the country from what I've seen and heard but Canada is a country of monopolies. A handful of companies own nearly everything, every province has a family or two that owns a hell of a lot (Nova Scotia is basically owned by one family at this point), and our government ignores it. Even the branch that is supposed to be against monopolies is fine with mergers and takeovers in most cases.

Because, you know, the company said it totally wouldn't use consumers' lack of options to increase prices.

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Top Health Official's Surprise Visit Reveals Poor Conditions at MGM Hospital

Health Principal Secretary Ajay Kumar Singh uncovers shocking conditions at MGM Hospital during an unannounced inspection. Ajay Kumar Singh, Principal Secretary of the Health Department, made an unplanned visit to MGM Hospital on Tuesday afternoon. JAMSHEDPUR – Health Secretary Ajay Kumar Singh’s unexpected visit to MGM Hospital revealed numerous deficiencies and mismanagement issues. Ajay Kumar…

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I've had more than one anarchist I associate with be surprised to learn I'm actually not an anarchist. But like. I'm a huge proponent of the Welfare State, and you kind of need a state for that

[straightlightyagami]

like don’t pretend to be “against violence” if you’re going to use transparently genocidal rhetoric. every comment by people supporting israel on posts about palestine on other sites (context: the post I was looking at specifically was literally just like "israel has been committing severe human rights violations against gaza for years and this is important context, the US is supporting this and it’s impossible to end the violence without actual accountability for violations of international law." you know, basic facts that should be generally agreed upon by normal people.. nothing about condoning h*mas) is like “you are supporting terrorists!! palestine does not exist and has never existed!! palestinians are subhuman animals” btw almost word for word quoted from a given comment but they all say that. Fun fact you are a fascist.

[agentfascinateur]

I 💜 Bernie Sanders

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One of the more unbelievable things about Star Trek might be that an entity based in the United States manages to do free healthcare. Like yes, that is a future I want to live in