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i Aug 4th, 2009 x by GHETS
Women and Health Taskforce Plans Conference in Wake of Canceled International Health Meeting
Women face many injustices and inequalities globally, both in terms of economic factors and human rights. An often overlooked aspect of this phenomenon is their health. For example, the World Health Organization points out that “maternal mortality has barely changed since 1990.” This fact points to the great need for a specific focus on women’s health issues. For this reason, when the members of the Women and Health Taskforce (WHTF) Management Committee sat down to discuss the creation of a WHTF Conference they knew it was a crucial matter. This is an especially important Conference to have this year because the annual international health meeting with The Network: Towards Unity for Health (TUFH), which WHTF is a part of, was canceled.
WHTF is planning a conference despite the initial setback of the Network conference cancellation and for good reason. As Judy Lewis pointed out, “going another year without meeting would be too long.” This is especially true of a Taskforce of this nature that deals with pressing issues of the utmost importance to women’s health, particularly in developing countries where resources are scarce. A concern that Rogayah Jaafar voiced was that “if the WHTF did not act to advance the Women and Health agenda, it could lose momentum,” a statement that is especially true in the midst of a global economic recession.
ealthcare for prison inmates involves much more than just diagnosis and medication. The majority of those admitted to the prisons have grown up in circumstances that encourage the use of intoxicants and other unhealthy substances. Many suffer from addictions. Also, the guilt feeling and the feeling of rejection by the society at large affects the mental and physical health of most inmates. So, healthcare program involves not just physical care but also lifestyle changes and changes in thinking patterns. We have to make a conscious effort to change the negativity of the prison atmosphere into positivity by taking various steps.
Let me give you an idea of the medical infrastructure available with us. Each of our 9 Central Prisons and 3 Special Prisons for Women has an exclusive hospital with in-patient facility. Each hospital has two doctors and adequate number of supporting medical staff. Diagnostic labs, equipped with X-ray machines, ECG, blood analyser and auto glove etc., are attached to these hospitals. In case the doctor in charge of the hospital feels that the facilities available in the prison hospital are inadequate to handle the specific medical condition of the inmate, he refers the inmate to the Government hospital. Apart from this, frequent medical camps are conducted by NGOs.
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