Eligible migrant families seeking emergency shelter in Massachusetts will be put on a waitlist as the state’s emergency shelter system is quickly reaching capacity, Emergency Assistance Director Lt. General Scott Rice said Monday.
An 82-year-old Tauranga retiree says his pain has doubled in the six years he has been trying to get a knee replacement and he now cannot walk more than 50.
In a promising turn of events, the New Pediatric Hospital has successfully reduced its waitlist for children s heart surgeries by half. At the end of last year, 110 children were awaiting their turn for heart surgeries. The number has now been reduced to 54.
Over the past year, the hospital has taken systematic and intensified actions to operate on pediatric patients requiring less complex heart surgeries, ensuring that the most critical cases receive timely care.
Syed Ali Husain, MD, MPH, discusses the importance of kidney transplantation, waitlisting, and how disparities in access to transplantation should be addressed.