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You know the ABC Australia does some wonderful work sometimes. This video below on the reconstruction of Gaza, is wonderful, but at the same time down right depressing. The worst part, no one is talking about even where to start apart from clearing the roads to getting the hospitals, plus clean water back up and running. On the issue of reconstruction alone, I can’t see this conflict ending anytime soon. Let alone all the other issues which make Gaza the worlds largest open air prison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBsxXZ7d9xM
Health who needs it. What good are medicines, we might get better than get sick again with something else perhaps.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE2510/S00064/new-report-shows-nz-is-a-major-outlier-with-lowest-medicines-investment-levels-compared-to-other-oecd-countries.htm
A comparative analysis of government and compulsory health budgets between 13 similar OECD countries has established that New Zealand has the lowest level of investment in medicines and is seen as a ‘major outlier’ in its health funding allocations.
The research undertaken by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) determined that only 4.9% of New Zealand’s public health budget is spent on medicines. That figure is almost 3 times lower than the OECD country average of 13.3%.
The report notes that this major outlier status and low medicine investment levels are problematic, given the well-established benefits that medicines deliver to public health systems. These include assisting the system and health workforces with efficiency and productivity gains, and in some cases, medicines being able to substitute for health services and infrastructure burden, for example, by reducing patient hospitalisation.
“Medicines are one of the most effective tools we have to improve both patient health outcomes and ease pressure on hospitals and the health system,” said Dr Graeme Jarvis, CEO of Medicines New Zealand. “Our country’s low level of government investment in medicines compared to equivalent OECD nations means that both patients and the health system and workforce are missing out on these benefits.”
Surprise, surprise, after knocking down the East Wing of the Whitehouse, Donald Trump is to name his new throne room after himself.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360866158/trump-will-reportedly-name-new-white-house-ballroom-after-himself
A suitable caption competition heading; ‘Donald Trump Gazarises the Whitehouse’