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JANUARY 7 The following is an open letter to Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin:
YAB Tan Sri,
We the undersigned view with much apprehension and concern the current status of the Covid-19 outbreak in the country.
Our national metrics paint a very bleak picture of Covid-19 pandemic management.
Despite MCOs and other health interventions, the daily reported cases are not decreasing.
The Cumulative Incidence Density (per 100,000 population) and the Infection Rate (active cases per 1,000 population) is not flattening, with the latest national Infection Rate registered at 0.879 per 1,000 population, meaning between 8-9 persons are actively infected for every 10,000 people.
Prealize Launches 2021 State of Health Market Report
Claims data analysis reveals three key conditions payers and providers need to watch next year
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PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Prealize, an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled predictive analytics company, today announced the publication of a new report that explores key medical conditions payers and providers should proactively address in 2021. Healthcare utilization for preventive care, chronic care, and emergent care significantly decreased in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which will result in an influx of newly diagnosed and later stage conditions in 2021. Prealize s
Many procedures and diagnoses fell significantly in 2020, with several dropping nearly 50% below 2019 levels between March and June. Total healthcare utilization fell 23% between March and August 2020, compared to the same time period in 2019. An analysis of this data at the procedur
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NHSL commends Hemas on donation of PCR laboratory machine Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
The National Hospital of Sri Lanka was recently gifted their first PCR machine, to improve the efficiency of patient care amidst a global pandemic.
The PCR machine being available at the hospital which treats and cares for individuals with many life-threatening situations, will allow for quick detection and prompt treatment that help these patients’ chances of successfully fighting the virus if contracted.
The management of Hemas gifted this state-of-the-art BIO-RAD machine for PCR testing understanding this timely need.
Dr. Stanley Amarasekera, Immediate Past President of Sri Lanka College of Cardiology and Consultant Cardiologist of NHSL said, “Till recently, there was no necessity for a PCR machine atNHSL as it was not categorized as a COVID-19 prevalent hospital. Through this machine, the hospital is able to carry out the tests in house, which reduces the burde
Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 11:01 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Dec 22, Colombo: At the request of the Sri Lanka Cardiologists Association, the Hemas Holdings donated a PCR machine worth Rs. 05 million to the Colombo National Hospital to improve the efficiency of patient care amidst a global pandemic.
No PCR tests have been conducted at the Colombo National Hospital so far and with the receipt of this first PCR machine donated to the hospital today (22) at the auditorium of the Ministry of Health, it will be possible to conduct PCR tests at the Colombo National Hospital in the future.
The donation was made to Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi by Murtaza Esufally, Chairman, Hemas Hospital, Jude Fernando, Managing Director and Kasturi Wilson, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer.
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New research shows that a majority of European anaesthesiologists and intensive care specialists believe that precious intensive care (ICU) capacity should be shared between nations during international emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing countries with excess capacity to help those that are being overwhelmed at any particular moment.
The study is published in the
European Journal of Anaesthesiology (the official journal of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care [ESAIC]), and is co-authored by Dr Elisabeth Adam, University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany; Professor Kai Zacharowski, President of ESAIC and also of University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany; Professor Stefan De Hert, Immediate Past President of ESAIC and University Hospital Ghent, Belgium, and colleagues.