NCDs control: Palliative care intergration in the Tanzanian health system

palliative care trainings offered by Tanzania palliative care association are essential in reforming the health care training in Tanzania.In the past, palliative care was not an important component in the health related training curricula, but with these sensitization trainings, curricula will be reviewed to include palliative care module. The fact that palliative care brings dignity and quality of life to patients with chronic disease, the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and social welfare will soon come up with a national guideline that guide palliative care provision in the country. Health related training institutions need to include these trainings in undergraduate,postgraduate and in-service studies. IMTU, has started sucha training offering postgraduate diploma in Palliative care.Integrating Palliative care in the health care system, will have its value regained as a strategy for NCDs control.

Health expert picked as World bank president

Kim has served as the president of Dartmouth College since 2009.He has worked extensively in HIV/AIDS and Tuberclosis in developing countries.Kim will take up the post in July for a five-year term.His selection extends the US hold on the top job at the 187 nation development agency.Kim's selection marks the first time that the head of the World Bank has been chosen through formal competition.His CV is marvellous,let us hope that he maintains his reputation in this new job.

Good health adds life to years

Today is the World Health day . As per the World Health Organization Official Website, World Health Day 2012 theme is Ageing and health – to which each and every one of us can relate. According to World Health organisation official report on world health day,population ageing is a global phenomenon that is now occurring fastest in low- and middle-income countries. While europe and Japan were among the first places to experience population ageing, the most dramatic change is now occurring
in countries such as Cuba, the islamic republic of iran and Mongolia.Population ageing is inextricably linked with socioeconomic development.Typically, as a country develops, more people survive childhood and childbirth, fertility falls, and people start to live longer. these changes in turn reinforce development. But they are also the drivers behind population ageing.
Unless societies adapt in ways that foster the health and participation of older people, this
inevitable demographic transition may slow down future socioeconomic advances.

Malawi president dies after heart attack

Bingu wa Mutharika, the president of Malawi has died after heart attack. His death followed a sudden fall at a meeting. He was send to a hospital in Lilongwe but could not recover. He died at the age of 78 years. He died at a local, poor hospital that have no enough drugs and has poor power supply. Malawians have mixed feelings with regard to the news of his death as it usual when a politician dies. Many Malawians blamed Mutharika personally for the economic woes, which stemmed ultimately from a diplomatic spat with former colonial power Britain a year ago.
"We know he is dead and unfortunately he died at a local, poor hospital which he never cared about - no drugs, no power," said Chimwemwe Phiri, a Lilongwe businessman waiting in a snaking line of cars for fuel at a petrol station.