WEEKLY BULLETIN: 20 FEBRUARY 2015

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Secretary-General announces new online health initiative Speaking at the Opening Ceremony of the 14th World Congress on Public Health on the 11 February 2015, Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma announced the new online health initiative ‘CommonHealth’. He said: “CommonHealth will be a secure cloud-based platform, designed to provide an authoritative source of health information, communication, networking, learning best practices in varying environments, and collaboration for healthcare professionals across the Commonwealth. “It will connect Commonwealth communities of doctors, nurses, allied healthcare practitioners and policy makers and allow members to access online communities, search for information, and where appropriate create expert groups to collaborate and develop projects.”Read the full story at http://thecommonwealth.org/media/news/secretary-general-announces-newonline-health-initiative-commonhealth Bangladesh to get $300-million World Bank loan for child health Bangladesh is to get a $300-million loan from the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) to help improve child nutrition after a deal was signed on Monday.The project will provide financial help to about 600,000 of the country's poorest mothers."The project will help poor mothers learn how to improve the nutrition of their young children and also provide an income supplement to enable them to better act on that learning," said Johannes Zutt, the World Bank's country director for Bangladesh.Despite Bangladesh’s record of reducing child mortality, it remains among the 10 countries with the highest prevalence of malnutrition and 41 percent of children below the age of 5 have stunted growth, according to the World Health Organization. Read the full article at http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/09/us-bangladesh-aid-worldbankidUSKBN0LD1L720150209
Bid to cap medical malpractice payouts Durban - Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has put a radical plan on the table to limit payouts to victims of medical malpractice. Instead of lump sum payouts, for those who successfully sued the state, the minister wants them to be paid in instalments, which would cease on death, with no payments going to their families. And rather than cash payment for future medical expenses, a claimant would instead have to use public health facilities. The sweeping reforms, which would require changes to the law, have been proposed by Motsoaledi in an effort to put a cap on the spiralling medical negligence claims facing the state. During the 2012/2013 financial year, the KZN Department of Health faced medical negligence claims totalling almost R1 billion (more than R992 million). This was R300 million more than the previous financial year. There were 306 medical negligence claims in Gauteng, amounting to R1.286 billion while the Eastern Cape department faced lawsuits in excess of R875-million in the same financial year. Read the full article at http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/bid-to-cap-medical-malpractice-payouts- 1.1813364#.VOSPRmccRMw Medical negligence costs ‘threat’ to National Health Service A soaring bill from medical negligence damages has become a threat to the National Health Service, says one of the most senior business figures in Whitehall. He said there was a question as to whether patients should lose their right to sue. The NHS Litigation Authority, which provides indemnity cover for legal claims against the health service, has set aside £26.1bn to cover outstanding liabilities, equivalent to almost a quarter of the £113bn annual health budget: £1.6bn was paid out last year. The number of claims rose almost 18 per cent in the year from March 2013. Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, will on Wednesday announce financial sanctions for hospitals that fail to be honest about clinical mistakes, in a sign of growing concern about compensation costs. Read the full article at http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f4da10f6-a255-11e4-9630- 00144feab7de.html#axzz3S6NNZtrG Delhi govt asked to pay Rs 8L for medical negligence at LNJP New Delhi: The apex consumer commission has asked the Delhi government to pay over Rs 8 lakh to the kin of a 46-year-old man who died due to "gross negligence" at the staterun LNJP hospital while being subjected to radiotherapy. A bench of National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), presided by Justice D K Jain, asked the Delhi government to pay Rs 8.25 lakh to the wife and three children of Ghaziabad resident Ramveer Singh, who died in October 2004. Read the full article at http://zeenews.india.com/news/delhi/delhi-govt-asked-to-pay-rs-8l-for-medicalnegligence-at-lnjp_1538142.html
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