The healthcare sector needs to lead a change in the way we produce, use and dispose of medicines. It means concerted action to ensure drugs, including antibiotics, are only ever prescribed when truly needed.
The #BeatPlasticPollutionForHealth campaign of HCWH SEA seeks to transform the healthcare sector’s role in addressing the plastics crisis by focusing on reducing waste, eliminating toxins, and promoting and adopting sustainable alternatives. Its key goals are:
Every year health care culinary professionals take their menus to new levels in creativity and flavor and compete to be crowned winner in the Health Care Culinary Contest.
Health workers face head-on the pressures of a changing climate, as they deliver care on the frontlines of heatwaves and other extreme weather events. It’s time health systems and facilities are built to protect them and protect the health of all.
