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KUALA LUMPUR – Fasting during Ramadan will definitely make one to easily feel lethargic, hungry and sleepy, but it is not an excuse to not exercise.
As such, the question of choosing food is very important to ensure the body gets all the necessary nutrients, thus helping to maintain fitness during the fasting period.
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According to Professor Dr Suzana Shahar of the Nutrition and Dietetics Centre for Healthy Ageing and Wellness, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, having sahur (pre-dawn meal) is very important to provide energy during fasting and to keep the body energetic throughout the day.
Health ombudsman hits out at union actions affecting hospital patients
Commissioner for Health at the Office of the Ombudsman issued warning on third industrial action affecting patients in hospitals and residents in care homes
21 April 2021, 11:57am
by Laura Calleja
Latest directives issued on Monday had called on employees not to bathe patients and residents, including the changing of nappies. “This affects mainly patients and residents who are incontinent,” the commissioner said.
A third union that issued directives affeting patients in hospitals and residents in care homes, were against human dignity, the Commissioner for Health at the Office of the Ombudsman warned.
The case of the missing skulls from Inishbofin
Updated / Wednesday, 14 Apr 2021
13:57
The Haddon Dixon Collection in the Skull Passage in Old Anatomy. Each skull was kept in a protective cover and labelled with its catalogue number in preparation for a conservation programme that is ongoing. Photo: Ciaran Walsh
Analysis: The colonial legacies of universities and museums have become an issue, especially culturally sensitive material like human remains in anthropological collections that were tainted by colonial violence and scientific racism.
John Millington Synge poked fun at colonial science in The Playboy of the Western World when he referred to an anthropological collection in TCD. Did you never hear tell, Jimmy asked Philly of the skulls they have in the city of Dublin, ranged out like blue jugs in a cabin of Connaught?
Professor Shabir Madhi, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Witwatersrand University and principal researcher of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the country, is calling on South Africa to use the consignment on vaccines that were found last month on delivery to have an April expiry date to offset the slow inflow of the currently-used Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
He is backed by Professor Francois Venter, deputy executive director of the Wits Reproductive Health Institute and HIV/Aids research and treatment veteran, who asks, “Why are we sending away 1,5 million [AstraZeneca] vaccines, and on what basis – the bottom line is we could have vaccinated one million vulnerable people? All the rest is just nonsense. There are enough vulnerable people to have rolled this out urgently.”
South Africa’s controversial bid to sell the potentially lifesaving 1.5 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to the African Union is faltering as the 30 April expiry looms – with some top researchers suggesting an unprecedented approach.