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womanofthehills's JournalTedros - 1,000 patients in hospital- some screaming on floor
Tedros. - The reports of ongoing hostilities and heavy bombardment in #Gaza are petrifying.
Yesterday our team visited Nassar Medical Hospital in the south. It was packed with 1,000 patients 3 times over its capacity. Countless people were seeking shelter, filling every corner of the facility.
Patients were receiving care on the floor, screaming in pain.
These conditions are beyond inadequate - unimaginable for the provision of health care.
I cannot find words strong enough to express our concern over what were witnessing.
Ceasefire. NOW.
https://x.com/drtedros/status/1731167960260112425?s=46&t=YZgyyp4w_z7vW3neKxa6cQ
US public support for Israel drops; majority backs a ceasefire, Reuters/Ipsos shows
WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - U.S. public support for Israel's war against Hamas militants in Gaza is eroding and most Americans think Israel should call a ceasefire to a conflict that has ballooned into a humanitarian crisis, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Some 32% of respondents in the two-day opinion poll, which closed on Tuesday, said "the U.S. should support Israel" when asked what role the United States should take in the fighting. That was down from 41% who said the U.S. should back Israel in a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted Oct. 12-13.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-public-support-israel-drops-majority-backs-ceasefire-reutersipsos-2023-11-15/
US public support for Israel drops; majority backs a ceasefire, Reuters/Ipsos shows
WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - U.S. public support for Israel's war against Hamas militants in Gaza is eroding and most Americans think Israel should call a ceasefire to a conflict that has ballooned into a humanitarian crisis, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Some 32% of respondents in the two-day opinion poll, which closed on Tuesday, said "the U.S. should support Israel" when asked what role the United States should take in the fighting. That was down from 41% who said the U.S. should back Israel in a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted Oct. 12-13. https://www.reuters.com/world/us-public-support-israel-drops-majority-backs-ceasefire-reutersipsos-2023-11-15/
Colombia passes ambitious 'junk food law' to tackle lifestyle diseases
The Latin American country is one of the first in the world to introduce a health tax targeting ultra-processed foods
Countries around the world have been implementing health taxes, for example by taxing tobacco or sugary drinks, but few have extended them to processed foods, said Franco Sassi, international health policy and economics professor at Londons Imperial College Business School. Colombias model is more expansive than what we have seen before and could serve as an example to other countries.
The tax targets ultra-processed products defined as industrially manufactured ready-to-eat foods, as well as those high in salt and saturated fat, such as chocolates or crisps. Sassi said some compromises had been made with the food industry, such as excluding certain processed foods, for example sausages, from the tax.
The Colombian diet is high in sodium, which has been linked to an increase in cardiovascular diseases, such as strokes and heart failure, which account for almost a quarter of deaths annually. The average Colombian consumes 12g of salt a day the highest rate in Latin America and among the highest in the world. Nearly a third of adults in the country have high blood pressure. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/nov/10/colombia-junk-food-tax-improve-health-acc
Tedros - 1 hr ago - Deeply worrisome and frightening:
@WHO has lost contact with its focal points in Al-Shifa Hospital in #Gaza, amid horrifying reports of the hospital facing repeated attacks.
There are reports that some of those who fled the hospital have been shot at, wounded, or killed.
The latest reports say the hospital was surrounded by tanks.
WHO is gravely concerned about the safety of health workers, hundreds of sick and injured patients, including babies on life support, and displaced people who remain inside the hospital.
WHO again calls for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza as the only way to save lives and reduce the horrific levels of suffering.
https://x.com/drtedros/status/1723503274806898888?s=46&t=YZgyyp4w_z7vW3neKxa6cQ
March sizes keep growing- every day in NY
NY cant keep up
One of the largest pro Palestine marches ever in London today.
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Fights in bread lines, despair in shelters: War threatens to unravel Gaza's close-knit society
JERUSALEM (AP) Fistfights break out in bread lines. Residents wait hours for a gallon of brackish water that makes them sick. Scabies, diarrhea and respiratory infections rip through overcrowded shelters. And some families have to choose who eats.
Over half a million displaced people have crammed into hospitals and U.N. schools-turned-shelters in the south. The schools overcrowded, strewn with trash, swarmed by flies have become a breeding ground for infectious diseases.
My kids are crying because they are hungry and tired and cant use the bathroom, said Suzan Wahidi, an aid worker and mother of five at a U.N. shelter in the central town of Deir al-Balah, where hundreds of people share a single toilet. I have nothing for them.
With the Israel-Hamas war in its second month and more than 10,000 people killed in Gaza, trapped civilians are struggling to survive without electricity or running water. Palestinians who managed to flee Israels ground invasion in northern Gaza now encounter scarcity of food and medicine in the south, and there is no end in sight to the war sparked by Hamas deadly Oct. 7 attack.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-palestinians-gaza-water-food-f225bf0723bb5b3ae1961ba6cdef1917
Sounds like Jill Stein might be running again
https://x.com/newsweek/status/1722694293062582456?s=46&t=YZgyyp4w_z7vW3neKxa6cQDr. Jill Stein announced her candidacy for the 2024 presidential race on Thursday, vowing to investigate President Joe Biden over issues related to the war between Israel and Hamas militants.
Sounds like Jill Stein might be running again
https://x.com/newsweek/status/1722694293062582456?s=46&t=YZgyyp4w_z7vW3neKxa6cQDr. Jill Stein announced her candidacy for the 2024 presidential race on Thursday, vowing to investigate President Joe Biden over issues related to the war between Israel and Hamas militants.
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