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Strength From Disaster on the Anniversary of Nepal EarthquakeOne year on from the devastating Gorkha Earthquake in Nepal, which killed more that 8,000 people, injured 22,000 and damaged or destroyed some thousand hospitals or health care centers, Health Care Without Harm, with strategic partner Health Care Foundation Nepal (HECAF), and Tzu Chi Foundation (Taiwan), organized a conference to disseminate lessons learned over the last twelve months and develop strategies to increase the resilience of the healthcare sector against similar events in the future. The conference,“Strength from Disaster: Lessons from the Gorkha earthquake and other global crises as catalysts to create a resilient health care system”was organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, Association of Private Health Institution Nepal, Association of Non-Government Hospitals and the World Health Organization, at the Hotel Annapurna, Kathmandu, Nepal on 26th and 27th April 2016 (14th and 15th Baisakh 2073). [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"5411","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"270","style":"display...

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Anti-mercury awareness has taken root in the Philippines. It wasn’t always like that, though. Before our anti-mercury campaign started in 2005, the dangers of mercury in health care wasn’t that well-known. All that changed after the first Southeast Asia Conference on Mercury was held in Manila in 2006. The conference brought the issue to light. The gathering was the tipping-point HCWH-Asia needed. Due to the convincing facts discussed, Philippine Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III pledged to author policies that mandate the phasing-out of mercury.The next year, Philippine Heart Center, together with St. Paul Hospital in Tuguegarao, the Manila Adventist Hospital, and San Juan De Dios Hospital started their own mercury phase-out programs. In August 11, 2008, Administrative Order 21 of the Department of Health was signed. It ordered the gradual phase-out of all mercury-containing devices in all Philippine hospitals by 2010.By 2009, more than 50 hospitals had...

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South Korea Eliminates PVC from Ivy BagsThe use of Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) causes problems due to endocrine disruptors such as Dietheylhexyl Phthalate (DEHP)and dioxins. However, patients in South Korea were not aware that even their IV bags often contained PVC with DEHP. To solve this serious situation, the KFEM Seoul office started a campaign to eliminate PVC from IV bags starting 2005. The campaign succeeded in convincing all IV bag producers in South Korea to pledge that they would replace all of their products with non-PVC products by 2006.Download the document from the librarySouth Korea: World Medical Association Statement on Reducing the Global Burden of MercuryRead the statement here.