From around March to June this year, there was a shortage of colostomy bags at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. This meant that public sector patients were, at times, sent home with too few or the wrong bags. Thabo Molelekwa reports.
issues increases, diagnosis. as awareness of the issues increases, policies i diagnosis. as awareness of the i issues increases, policies followed. the recent statement on women s health and the welsh government said menopause requires significant attention by health boards. meanwhile, a new expert group is working on a new care pathway across wales. good afternoon. it is a fresh out and about for many parts. quite windy in the far north west, but the notable exception is the south and east where we still have the humid air with a weather front giving fairweather cloud over the south. occasional showers in the north and west, blowing in on that breeze. still up to 29 or 30 locally, still heatwave conditions continuing across the south and east. overnight we hopefully will lose the humidity, the remnants of that weather front drifts away and there will be further showers pushing into the
capacity should have any sort of assisted death. because that is another concern. i know it s another one. at that stage, i say no it s far too complicated. but my point about the suicide kit is, i mean, you re very honest and frank, as you have always been, about your career and your view of medicine. you re honest about it existing, but you re also honest to say that you ve got a colleague on standby who will help you. yes, well, i m worried it might not work. i need backup. but then you ll be criminalising him or her. that s his choice. you ve discussed that? oh, yes, of course. and most doctors of my generation, we. you know, it s not something you talk about in public, but you often ease the passing. and that became increasingly difficult after harold shipman. and also, because of more and more attention to this. and the mess over the so called liverpool care pathway. these are very, very difficult areas. but i think we need to talk about them as openly as possible.
terms of the peak we saw injanuary 2021. if i can push back a bit, we need to be really careful about effectively saying that the number of covid 19 patients in hospitals or an intensive care is somehow a good proxy measure for overall pressure on the nhs. when talk to the you hospital, community mental health ambulance trust chief executives, they will say that they are just as worried if not more worried about the level of staff absences that they are experiencing. what they are also saying is, look, we need to look at the load we have got in terms of non covid 19 care. we have a busy care pathway, we know there are increasing numbers of people whose care. plant care we cannot delay any longer. we know our colleagues in social care are under pressure, and as you know, we are going full pelt to extend the