#Ministry of Health

[dandyads]

UK Ministry of Health, 1940s

[northgazaupdates]

6 March 2024

Journalist Anas Al-Sharif shares via Telegram an updated death toll from IOF-engineered starvation in north Gaza. He says the Gaza Ministry of Health reports that the known deaths from starvation in north Gaza has risen to 18 today. This is due to a little girl in Al-Shifa Hospital passong from malnutrition and dehydration from the IOF blockade.

Source: Gaza Ministry of Health as reported by Anas Al-Sharif on Telegram

[youareprobablywrong]

Is the Gaza Ministry of Health Lying about Casualty Data?

No. There is no evidence to suggest that this is the case. Arguably, the real time reporting on the ground would indicate that the data is likely very accurate, if not still underreported. The MoH (Ministry of Health) has been verified in previous conflicts has having been accurately reported. This verification has been done by independent parties, but most specifically Israel and the United States.

What would be some red flags for faked data?

Some noticeable trends would be:

Absence of statistical outliers

Near uniformity in reporting

Increases/decreases that do not make sense given contexts

First and second order digit comparisons

Why would MoH or anyone lie about casualty data?

Those who have attempted to cast doubt on Gaza's reporting have done so to delegitimize their entire system. They allege that Gaza's Ministry of Health has in their best interest (for the sake of propaganda and to sway the world) to fabricate through casualty reporting the severity of the destruction so as to paint Israel as the aggressor.

While the motive is surely true, the data at present does not support the idea that this is what the MoH is doing.

What is true is that the quality of data being reported has decreased over time. This is in part driven by the near total collapse of the health system in Gaza. It is the health system (actual doctors and nurses) that is responsible for reporting deaths. Their method for reporting is consistent with other countries (like Israel, United States, EU, etc.) in which they have a name, and a personal identification number (Palestine's version of a social security number). This information is verifiable.

There is also satellite imagery that validates the level of physical destruction. This objective means of assessing the spread of damage would, for reasonable people, give the impression that there would be significant numbers of dead and injured.

As of today, that number stands at more than 110,000 casualties (34,000+ dead and 76,900+ injured).

The facts are that the average daily number of people killed and injured has decreased significantly over time. This is while also seeing a higher ratio of killed over injured which suggests that the IDF is using better intelligence and better ordinance to strike legitimate targets. To be fair, two months of carpet bombing that occurred from the outset has left the IDF with no other choice as doing this also diminished Israel's capacity to perpetually monitor every single person within the Gaza Strip.

So, if you hear someone alleging that the Gaza Ministry of Health is fabricating their casualty numbers, kindly tell that person to fuck off. This is simply a rhetorical device that is meant to divest the people of Gaza of any legitimacy, indeed their humanity.

If, as the news has been reporting for several weeks now, Israel executes a ground assault into Rafah, we should expect to see casualty numbers increase with significant spikes, followed by precipitous decreases.

[conradforrest]

Could I have made a better background? Maybe, but after 16 hours and a bit more I just wanted to finish with this :p

@countrypapers

[queenpinkireellylikethisname]

BREAKING| The Ministry of Health:

⭕️Israeli forces have turned Nasser Hospital into a health disaster during its siege and incursion.

⭕️Medical teams are unable to provide healthcare to patients at the hospital.

⭕️The generator has stopped, oxygen supply has ceased, sewage system has malfunctioned, water supply is interrupted, waste is piling up, and the lack of medical supplies hinders operations at the hospital.

⭕️We need to evacuate more than 120 patients from Nasser Hospital to other hospitals.

⭕️We call on international institutions to urgently provide the necessary emergency assistance for the hospital and pressure Israel to release all kidnapped healthcare personnel.

Source: Quds News Network.

[theinfinitelibrarysystem]

gender affirming care for trans youth on the line in new zealand

No other health service has ever been put to public, non-medical professional opinion like this. it's because we're trans, call it concern all you like but gender affirming care has the least regret rates in the world.

it's blatant transphobia against a group that can't fight back. i don't know where to put this, but it's important. my country is small but right now we have the worst government we've had in a while, people who want to eradicate, and are eradicating, protections for marginalised groups and the environment.

[coochiequeens]

Just the trans cult comparing their cosmetic procedures to people with real medical conditions.

By Amy Hamm June 29, 2024

A trans-identified male in British Columbia, Canada, is suing the provincial Ministry of Health after it refused to fund the out-of-country vaginoplasty he demanded be performed in Bangkok, Thailand.

The man, referred to only as KW in legal documents due to a publication ban on his name, originally lodged a complaint at the BC Human Rights Tribunal (BCHRT) in 2019 alleging discrimination. KW claimed that being denied funding for the out-of-country surgery was akin to sex-based discrimination on the basis of his transgender status.

In his legal complaint, KW insisted that a female would not have been denied the same laparoscopic sigmoid colon vaginoplasty — a procedure that is sometimes performed on females who are born with exceedingly rare disorders of sexual development. The surgery includes utilizing sections of harvested colon tissue to craft the appearance of a vulva and vagina.

KW claimed that he was unable to apply for the surgery because he could not find a specialist to complete his application form, and argued that a female could have accessed a gynecologist to do so.

The BC Ministry of Health (MOH) sought to dismiss KW’s claim on the basis that it held no reasonable chance of success, but was denied in a May 10, 2024 ruling. The matter will now be scheduled for a hearing.

The Ministry argued that they did not discriminate against KW, deny him medical care, or treat him differently “than any other beneficiary who requests out of country medical services.” They also noted that KW did not fully complete his application for surgery, adding that vaginoplasty procedures are available in Canada “and as such, the public health system was not obligated to fund the service [he] was seeking overseas.” 

The MOH gave approval for KW to undergo a fully-funded vaginoplasty at GrS Montreal in October of 2017. However, months later in January of 2018, KW applied to the MOH to instead fund his surgery in Bangkok, Thailand.

He was advised that the application had to be completed by a BC specialist, and not the plastic surgeon from Thailand.

A letter from the Ministry read: “When surgery is available in Canada, the attending specialist in BC may recommend surgery outside Canada. The specialist must include peer reviewed medical articles with the application to confirm surgery outside Canada will result in a significant difference in success. The recommendation for surgery is sincerely respected; however as surgery is available in Canada, provincial coverage was not approved for surgery in Thailand.”

Ultimately, KW never completed his application and accepted the vaginoplasty at GrS Montreal on January 6, 2020. The hospital performs penile inversion vaginoplasty, in which penile tissue is “flipped” to create a vagina-like canal. This is the most common vaginoplasty technique in North America.

BCHRT panel member, Shannon Beckett, wrote in her May decision that the tribunal is also going to consider discrimination on the basis of gender identity, though KW did not allege this in his filing. She argued that the Ministry of Health made a “problematic” statement when they refuted KW’s claim about females accessing this type of procedure. Beckett appears to have taken specific issue with the Ministry’s explanation that vaginoplasties are “rarely performed on cisgender women, and only in cases where it is medically necessary (i.e. due to disease or injury).”

Beckett wrote that the Ministry’s usage of the term “medically necessary “ has “implied that where transgender women are seeking the same surgery, it is not in cases ‘where it is medically necessary.’ This argument appears to be based on stereotypical and outdated ideas about the nature and reason for gender-affirming surgery. There is no indication in the context of this complaint that the gender-affirming care KW was seeking was not medically necessary.”

This argument is reminiscent of a 2019 procedural decision by BCHRT member Devyn Cousineau wherein she referred to notorious trans activist Jessica Yaniv having his male testicles waxed by unwilling women as “critical gender affirming care.”

The hearing dates for KW’s suit against the BCHRT have not been scheduled, and it will likely take months if not years as the BCHRT is facing an enormous backlog of almost 5,000 active files.

This case is not the first of its kind in Canada. Earlier this year, and as reported by Reduxx, an Ontario man successfully sued the Ontario Health Insurance Plan to have the province fund an experimental surgery in Texas that will leave him with his penis as well as a surgically created “neo-vagina.”

The man in this case broke his own publication ban when he posted about his diaper fetish on Reddit, and openly admitted he was the individual documented in the highly-publicized case. 

[workersolidarity]

🇵🇸 🚨 GAZA'S MINISTRY OF HEALTH SOUNDING ALARMS OVER THE CONDITIONS FOR PREGNANT WOMEN IN GAZA

🚑🏥 Health Ministry of Gaza:

50,000 pregnant women are in shelter centers without food, water or health care, with approximately 180 women giving birth every day in unsafe and inhumane conditions.

Via@PalestineTV

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[tenth-sentence]

Middle- and upper-class families were using contraception from the 1920s to control the size of their families but fear of working-class women's sexuality meant that it would not be until 1930 that the Ministry of Health allowed publicly funded nurses and doctors to give contraceptive advice to poor married women and then only on medical grounds.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[doctorslippery]

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F'n elves. They live so long that whenever they scry humans they see death. Cause to them it's next week, but to us, it's 30 years or more from now.

[angrybell]

Aizenberg is a board member of Honest Reporting.

[dandyads]

UK Ministry of Health, 1940s

[countrypapers]

MINISTRIES OF ARSTOTZKA

[falseandrealultravival]

Japanese Central Government Agency (1) Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare

Unemployment benefits are calculated based on the average daily wages for the six months before the assessment, but the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare ignores the actual weekly holiday system and assumes that workers will work on Saturdays and Sundays. Therefore, what is paid is (daily wage) × 5 ÷ 7, Only 70% will be paid from the beginning.

It's a nice calculation.

Rei Morishita

日本の中央官庁（１）厚生労働省

失業給付は、査定の目前６か月の、平均日給をもとに算出するが、厚生労働省は、現実の週休日制を無視し、土曜日・日曜日も出勤するとみなす。 そこで、支給されるのは（日給）×５÷７で、 はじめから７０％しか支給されないことになる。

立派な計算である。

[queenpinkireellylikethisname]

As of April 29th 2024

Daily briefing by the Ministry of Health in Gaza on day 206 of the Israeli genocide:

⭕ The Israeli occupation committed 3 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, resulting in 34 documented fatalities and 68 injuries.

⭕ The documented Palestinian death toll has risen to 34,488 martyrs and 77,643 injuries since the seventh of last October.

⭕ The figures above only refer to the cases transported to hospitals and registered in the records of the Ministry of Health.

Source: Quds News Network.

[doctorslippery]

There may be demons and ghosts in the fog, but I can breathe.

Decided to say fuck it to my congestion. Closed myself in the guest bathroom, blocked out all ventilation, turned my massive humidifier on full blast and ran myself the hottest bath i can stand.

This is my enclosure. I live here now. I have recreated the water cycle in a matter of minutes and can finally breathe.