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Health Titbits for Wednesday

Enquiry into our rural health continues. WA Health Minister said in parliament yesterday that it was "phyiscally impossible" to have a doctor 24/7 on-site at small country hospitals and that to do so would be an "absolute waste of resources". A report released by Rural Health West last December revealed the ratios of doctors to patients in Western Australia fall short of the recommended 1 to 750. Corrigin will join a list of regional towns in WA operating without a doctor or permanent GP next week. Among the listed are Kulin, Kondinin and Lake Grace.

Experts have called on a national surveillance scheme for vaccine. A commissioned report by the WA Govt revealed that response was slow for both state and federal government in recognizing apparent adverse effects of the vaccine and that neither state nor federal government had taken up the World Health Organization WHO recommendation to place surveillance measure in place. The federal government's top immunisation adviser, Professor Terry Nolan, last year supervised paediatric clinical trials for swine flu vaccine, Panvax, produced by pharmaceutical giant, CSL. Professor Nolan will be among the panel of experts investigating the adverse effect of Fluvax, a combined seasonal and swine flu vaccine produced by CSL.

NT has its first swine flu death this year. The victim was a man with pre-disposed health risks.

In the ACT, the Little Company Mary is claiming $14M debt from the ACT Government over the failure of Calvary hospital sale.

NSW Health is investigating a Portuguese report which reveals the silver feathered, yellow feet breed of seagull, is susceptible to be carrying superbug infection.

Health experts are calling for increased sexual health campaigns targeting teenagers after a survey revealed that 63% engage in non-protected sex and a further 65% aged between 18 - 25 never undergo STI check

ACT residents carry the longest life expectancy in Australia albeit being mostly overweight and inadequate in their dietary fibre intake

Have a groovy Wednesday!

Labels: ACT Government, CSL, Fluvax, Little Company Mary, Rural Health, Superbug, vaccine surveillance, Western Australia, WHO

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