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What's New
Manila -- Celebrating International Nurses Day, HCWH and nurses all over the world are partnering to create a cleaner, healthier and more environmentally-friendly health care system. Read the Press Release
Istanbul -- The World Health Organization and Health Care Without Harm released a Discussion Draft Report, Healthy Hospitals, Healthy Planet, Healthy People - Addressing Climate Change in Health Care Settings at the World Federation of Public Health Associations quadrennial meeting.
Philippines -- In another step towards cancelling the toxic debt used to purchase obsolete incinerators, HCWH SEA and several hospitals in the country sent a letter to Austrian Ambassador Herbert Jaeger calling for the cancellation of the loan. Read the Press Release
Argentina -- Ministry of Health issued a Resolution instructing all hospitals and health care centers in the country to buy mercury-free thermometers and blood pressure devices and convened a working group to begin a process to gradually phase-out other uses of mercury. Read the Press Release
Kenya -- More than 140 countries agreed to launch negotiations establishing a treaty on mercury to limit pollution affecting millions of people across the world. Read More
Philippines -- Forty three Philippine Congressmen yesterday signed the petition to cancel the 1994 Austrian government loan worth Php503 million used to fund the defunct Austrian Medical Waste Incinerator Project. Read the Press Release
Uruguay -- The Minister of Health annouced the elimination of mercury-containing thermometers from all public health care system due to this metal's harmful effects on people and the environment. Read the News
Argentina -- Supporting HCWH campaign, dozens of health care workers, including doctors and nurses working in the nation's most prestigious institutions, signed a letter addressed to Graciela Ocaña, Minister of Health, demanding a nation-wide ban on the purchase and use of mercury-based thermometers and sphygmomanometers. Read More
India -- The First South Asian Conference for the Elimination of Mercury in Health Care took place in New Delhi, India on December 5-6. Organized by the Indian-based Toxics Link and Health CareWithout Harm, in Association with WHO and UNEP, the event was attended by health care leaders from throughout South Asia. Read More
Global— Health Care Without Harm and the World Health Organization today launched a global partnership to substitute mercury-based medical devices with safer, accurate and affordable alternatives. Read the Press Release
South Korea—The World Medical Association unanimously passed a resolution calling for the phase-out of mercury use in the health care sector. Delegates said hospitals and medical facilities should switch to non-mercury equivalents. Read the Resolution
Tanzania—An HCWH-led project to replace Bagamoyo District Hospital’s reliance on an ailing incinerator with a safer, non-burn waste treatment system received high praise today from hospital staff. Read the Press Release
United States— The US will eventually stop all exports of elemental mercury under legislation sponsored by Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, and signed into law by President Bush. Read More
Philippines— Members of the Congress petitioned the Austrian Parliament to cancel a loan agreement for obsolete incinerators that is impoverishing the Philippine health care system. Read More
Philippines— Muntinlupa City has banned the use of mercury thermometers and other mercury-containing medical implements in all city-run hospitals and clinics, citing the toxicity of the heavy metal substance. Read More
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