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There has been a slight increase in the number of traffic accidents recorded for the first half of 2022 when compared to the same period last year, says Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Rodney Ellis, Head of the Traffic Department. CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP FOR NEWS UPDATES.

However, he says the incidence of accidents can be reduced once motorists and pedestrians pay attention to the road.

According to ASP Ellis, most of the accidents that have occurred are rear-enders – that is, hitting another vehicle from behind.

Meanwhile, the Traffic Head is advising the public that there will be heightened traffic patrols in and around the city as Carnival draws near.

He says the Police will be on hand at every event to assist persons who are intoxicated and to prevent them from getting behind the wheel and later being involved in a traffic accident.

In the meantime, at least three young people have been hospitalized on account of traffic collisions over the past few days.

A Hispanic youth, who was involved in an accident on Market Street, is still nursing his injuries at the hospital and is said to be stable but serious.

He was driving at a high speed, lost control of his vehicle, and ended up in a ditch on Tanner Street. The accident was captured on closed-circuit camera and the video has gone into wide circulation.

There was also a Valley Road collision involving another young man on Tuesday, July 19. Ellis describes it as another speeding incident and a single-vehicle collision.

That youth, too, was driving at a high speed, which resulted in him losing control of his vehicle and colliding with a utility pole.

Both he and his passenger had to be transported to the hospital with serious injuries. They both are reportedly stable.

The Police are also investigating a Jonas Road accident that involved two pick-up trucks, although the circumstances surrounding this impact are still not known.

Once all the information is gathered, Ellis says, charges will be laid against these persons, since, according to him, the evidence would suggest that speeding was involved. — REAL News

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Around the world, millions of refugees and migrants in vulnerable situations, such as low-skilled migrant workers, face poorer health outcomes than their host communities, especially where living and working conditions are sub-standard, according to the first WHO World report on the health of refugees and migrants.

This has dire consequences for the probability that the world will not achieve the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for these populations.

“Today there are some one billion migrants globally, about one in eight people. The experience of migration is a key determinant of health and wellbeing, and refugees and migrants remain among the most vulnerable and neglected members of many societies,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.

“This report is the first to offer a global review of refugee and migrant health; it calls for urgent and collective action to ensure they can access health care services that are sensitive to their needs. It also illustrates the pressing need to address the root causes of ill health and to radically reorient health systems to respond to a world increasingly in motion.”

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According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Northern America was the destination for 59 million international migrants in 2020. In Latin America and the Caribbean, the number of international migrants more than doubled since 2005 to 15 million in 2021, making it the region with the highest growth.

Based on an extensive review of literature from around the world, the report demonstrates that refugees and migrants are not inherently less healthy than host populations.

It is, rather, the impact of the various suboptimal health determinants, such as education, income, housing, access to services, compounded by linguistic, cultural, legal and other barriers and the interaction of these during the life course, that are behind poor health outcomes.

The report reiterates that the experience of migration and displacement is a key factor in a person’s health and wellbeing, especially when combined with other determinants.

For example, a recent meta-analysis of more than 17 million participants from 16 countries across five WHO regions found that, compared with non-migrant workers, migrant workers were less likely to use health services and more likely to have an occupational injury.

Evidence also showed that a significant number of the 169 million migrant workers globally are engaged in dirty, dangerous, and demanding jobs and are at greater risk of occupational accidents, injuries, and work-related health problems than their non-migrant counterparts, conditions exacerbated by their often limited or restricted access to and use of health services.

The Report demonstrated critical gaps in data and health information systems regarding the health of refugees and migrants – while data and evidence are plentiful, they are fragmented and not comparable across countries and over time.

Although these mobile populations are sometimes identifiable in global datasets used for SDG monitoring, health data are often missing from migration statistics and migratory status variables are often missing from health statistics. This makes it difficult to determine and track progress for refugees and migrants towards the health-related SDGs.

“It is imperative that we do more on refugees and migrants’ health but if we want to change the status quo, we need urgent investments to improve the quality, relevance and completeness of health data on refugees and migrants. We need sound data collection and monitoring systems that truly represent the diversity of the world population and the experience that refugees and migrants face the world over and that can guide more effective policies and interventions,” said Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab, WHO’s Deputy Director-General.

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO is implementing a project in coordination with national authorities in ten Central- and South American countries to protect the health of migrants and ensure their access to health services. Information gaps, however, are a challenge that still needs to be addressed in order to strengthen and develop national policies and regulatory frameworks to include this population.

Earlier this year, and in alignment with global efforts, PAHO launched an information platform to address the lack of regional data on migration and health. The platform includes interactive dashboards on policy, legal, and regulatory frameworks, as well as scientific literature on health and migration, and is aimed at all stakeholders involved in developing health and migration policies, laws, and programs.

While lack of comparable data on the health of refugees and migrants across countries and over time often impedes good policy development towards health equity, policies and frameworks do exist that address and respond to the health needs of refugees and migrants. However, disparities in health outcomes remain and the report shows that they are mainly due to a lack of meaningful and effective implementation of policies.

“Health does not begin or end at a country’s border. Migratory status should therefore not be a discriminatory factor but a policy driver on which to build and strengthen healthcare and social and financial protection. We must reorient existing health systems into integrated and inclusive health services for refugees and migrants, in line with the principles of primary health care and universal health coverage,” said Dr Santino Severoni, Director of WHO’s Health and Migration Programme.

Refugees and migrants can introduce innovative ideas that drive economic and social transformation.

The Report highlights the extraordinary contributions of refugee and migrant healthcare workers to the COVID-19 frontline response.

One of the most notable was the contributions of migrants in several countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which were particularly significant when in some countries as many as half of doctors or nurses are foreign born.

Implementing inclusive health systems that conform to the principle of right to health for all and universal health coverage would permit individuals in need of health services to be identified and supported early, before many problems become acute. Health systems are only as strong as their weakest link.

The inclusion of refugees and migrants is a worthwhile investment for the development and wellbeing of societies around the world.

Source: Pan American Health Organization/ SLT. Headline photo: Stock image

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El Departamento de Justicia presentó el miércoles, 41 cargos contra dos mujeres que supuestamente se dedicaban a hurtar productos cosméticos de alto valor en dos cadenas de farmacias en el área metropolitana y luego los vendían a través de redes sociales y en Río Piedras.

“Por las características del esquema diseñado, el Departamento de Justicia organizó un grupo de investigación liderado por la División de Crimen Organizado y Drogas, junto a seis agentes de la División de Delitos contra la Propiedad del Cuerpo Investigaciones Criminales (CIC) del Negociado de la Policía. Procesar este tipo de delito presenta retos, ya que se trata de actividades delictivas continuas. Ante este hecho, la Oficina de la Jefa de los Fiscales, Jessika Correa González, desarrolló una estrategia coordinada entre ambas agencias para detener las prácticas ilícitas de las imputadas”, manifestó el secretario de Justicia, Domingo Emanuelli Hernández en declaraciones escritas.

Según el fiscal Orlando Velázquez, las imputadas, Carla Michelle De León Ramos, de 38 años y residente de Guaynabo, y Suheily Pastrana Hernández, de 35 años y residente en San Juan, enfrentan cargos por apropiación ilegal, conspiración, escalamiento y amenaza, en violación del Código Penal de Puerto Rico. De acuerdo a la investigación de las autoridades, entre ambas se apropiaron de 31,693.16 dólares de las farmacias Walgreens, y 8,741.12 dólares de las farmacias CVS, para un total de 40,434.28 dólares.

Por su parte, el comisionado de la Policía, Antonio López Figueroa, manifestó que los delitos señalados tienen un impacto sobre los ciudadanos y no solo sobre los negocios afectados. “Cuando una empresa tiene pérdidas a consecuencia de la actividad delictiva, se encarecen sus costos de operación, y esto se refleja sobre el precio de las mercancías y productos. Por tal razón, la División de Delitos contra la Propiedad se sumó a los esfuerzos del Departamento de Justicia para desarticular el esquema perpetuado por estas dos jóvenes”, dijo.

El capitán Edwin Figueroa, director del CIC de Bayamón, explicó que la cantidad total de querellas presentadas contra las mujeres sobrepasa de sesenta en toda la isla. Los cargos radicados en el día de hoy corresponden a once querellas de farmacias en la zona de Bayamón, por lo cual la investigación continúa.

Según explicó el oficial, las mujeres actuaban en coordinación, o individualmente, para obtener perfumes y cosméticos de marcas de lujo de forma ilegal. Agregó que además trataron de intimidar a los representantes de las tiendas que intervinieron con ellas, los que al presente son testigos en el proceso criminal. La Policía ocupó tres vehículos: un Toyota Corolla del 2000; un Mitsubishi Mirage de 1997 y un Jeep Cherokee del 2019, en el cual encontraron mercancía valorada en 1,400 dólares.

En la investigación de la Policía participaron los agentes Freddie López Santiago, Carmen Galván Hernández, Nivia Arce Rivera, Gilberto Sierra Sánchez, María Nazario Álvarez, Guillermo García Rivera y Jessica Pizarro Cruz, bajo la supervisión del sargento Fernando Hernández González, de la división de propiedad del CIC de Bayamón.

Los cargos están siendo presentados en este momento, por el fiscal Velázquez ante la jueza Catherine Brunnel, del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Bayamón.

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Tobago Regional Health Authority (TRHA) Medical Chief of Staff Dr Nathaniel Duke says the island is preparing for the arrival of monkeypox.

“It is a matter of when it is going to come,” he said on Tuesday on the Tobago Updates morning show.

Saying all of Tobago’s health facilities have already started to prepare, Duke said THA Secretary of Health, Wellness and Social Protection Dr Faith BYisrael has also been chairing “a lot of high-level meetings” in this regard.

He said the TRHA’s clinical awareness programme will centre around what he described as the three I’s: identifying the virus; isolating oneself to prevent spread; and informing the relevant authorities of one’s condition.

People can contact the County Medical Officer of Health, Division of Health or Ministry of Health, he said.

Duke, an infectious disease specialist, said people must be concerned about monkeypox.

“We have to be more vigilant because we have a situation where we are still within a pandemic.”

To compound matters, he said the World Health Organization has confirmed over 13,000 cases in 69 countries, including, Jamaica, Barbados, St Lucia.

Duke added, people living in the Caribbean usually travel to states like New York and Florida.

“New York has a lot of monkeypox cases.”

He said there are many misconceptions about the way the virus is spread.

“The issue now that we are facing is that we are seeing the virus is transmitted by men who have sex with men (MSM). But we do not want to categorise this virus as a gay virus as what I am hearing outside.”

Rather, Duke said, “The mode of transmission is close contact with someone who is infected with monkeypox.”

At present, he said, there is a lot of transmission among the MSM population in the United States and Europe.

“So that is why we have to be on heightened alert with respect to monkeypox.

Duke said the virus can be found in respiratory droplets.

Asked about the symptoms, he said, “Unfortunately, the symptoms are very non-specific. So flu-like symptoms – fever, headache, nausea, body pains. But then you have swollen lymph glands. Monkeypox characteristically produces a lot of swollen lymph nodes.”

He said the illness usually lasts for about two to four weeks, while the rash will occur within one to four days of becoming symptomatic. Symptoms can last for up to 21 days.

“But these are not carved in stone. It varies from person to person.”

Duke said the rash is highly infectious throughout all of its stages.

“Even when the rash is dry or crusted, it is still infectious. It is not until you have new skin or rejuvenated skin, you are no longer infectious.

Chief Medical Officer Dr Roshan Parasram said recently, measures are being put in place in the event the virus arrives in the country.

Monkeypox was first detected in the macaque monkey in 1958. The first animal-to-human transmission occurred in the 1970s.

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