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2023 - 2 - 10

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How Delhi hopes to combat water shortage this summer (The Indian Express)

DJB vice-chairman Saurabh Bhardwaj has been holding meetings with MLAs in Delhi to prepare the action plan ahead of summer.

[Delhi](https://indianexpress.com/section/cities/delhi/) to prepare the action plan ahead of summer. Ahead of every summer, the DJB prepares an action plan to deal with the anticipated shortage of water. In Assembly constituencies, areas vulnerable to water shortage were also identified in last year’s summer action plan.

Desperate shortage of places at medical schools reported (University World News)

Getting a place to train as a doctor, nurse, laboratory scientist or pharmacist is highly competitive in the country, forcing some students to study in foreign ...

The report said there is an average course completion rate of 80.6% for health or medical-related courses and a dropout rate of 19.4%. Of the capacity, the production has been 3,334 per year (75% of the theoretical capacity),” according to the survey report. “Establish and expand existing basic, post-basic, undergraduate and post-graduate training. There is a capacity to train 4,476 health workers per year (theoretical capacity). There was also a call to engage the private sector to optimise expanded contributions to training and employment as well as the need for collaboration between the ministry of higher and tertiary education to align training plans with the ministry of health in line with the projected needs based on disease burden. The shortage of places suggests that Zimbabwe may be struggling to pursue Sustainable Development Goal 3, good health and well-being, in particular the training and development of a health workforce to support the population’s health.

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Mohali Deputy Mayor highlights staff shortage in letter to Punjab govt (The Indian Express)

The deputy mayor said that in his letter, he highlighted that that due to the shortage of employees and officials in the civic body, the routine work of ...

“So how can they supervise the development works in the entire city and solve problems,” Bedi asks in his letter. Apart from this, there was a shortage of clerks, fireman and drivers as well in the municipal corporation Mohali, Bedi claimed. But at present, these recruitment are being done through the SS Board, in which extra time is being wasted,” Bedi rued.

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Immigrants helping address Utah health care labor shortage (KSL.com)

A new report from the American Immigration Council shows immigrants account for nearly 13% of Utah physicians as demand for bilingual workers jumps by 39%.

"As a state and across agencies, we're working to maximize the talents and contributions of New Americans," Starks said in a press release. "As employers struggle to recruit and retain specialized health care workers, immigrants play a crucial role in helping to address labor shortages," the American Immigration Council report states. are unemployed or stuck in low-skilled jobs — a phenomenon referred to as "brain waste." [2 million](https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/costs-brain-waste-among-highly-skilled-immigrants-select-states#:~:text=Across%20the%20United%20States%2C%20nearly,%E2%80%9D%E2%80%94varies%20significantly%20by%20state.) college-educated immigrants in the U.S. Those barriers can be even higher in health care. as well as a lack of U.S. Minnesota, for example, has as a program that provides internationally trained doctors with clinic experience so they can compete for medical residences. [Multicultural Utah](https://www.ksl.com/news/stream/multicultural-utah) [Immigration](https://www.ksl.com/news/stream/immigration) [Business](https://www.ksl.com/news/business) [Utah](https://www.ksl.com/news/utah) [Health](https://www.ksl.com/news/utah/health) The American Immigration Council is a nonprofit and advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. Between 2017 and 2021, online job postings [In 2015](http://research.newamericaneconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/lifesupport929-1.pdf), for example, Utah faced severe physicians' shortages, with some counties reporting zero physicians per 100,000 residents. Although the total number of health care jobs in Utah's health care industry has declined, the state has seen a dramatic increase in the number of job postings.

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Business Highlights: FTX founder's talk, pilot shortage (The Washington Post)

NEW YORK — Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of FTX, has been unusually talkative following the November collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange and ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 249.13 points, or 0.7%, to 33,699.88. mortgage rate ticked up slightly this week after four weeks of declines, a possible sign of stability that could draw in home shoppers with spring buying season weeks away. In 2022, spirits gained market share for the 13th straight year in the U.S. Applications for jobless aid in the U.S. Redwood Materials, a recycling venture founded by the former chief technology officer at Tesla, secured a conditional loan from the Energy Department’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program, which helped Tesla more than a decade ago. — A Nevada company that recycles batteries for electric vehicles has won a $2 billion green energy loan from the Biden administration. The president of the pilots’ union at Southwest says Congress needs to hold the airline accountable, and give firm dates for how it will fix a crew-scheduling system that was overwhelmed in December. WASHINGTON — Congress is hearing about the December meltdown at Southwest Airlines. Stocks have been shaky this week, flipping from gains to losses and back again amid uncertainty about where interest rates and inflation are heading. NEW YORK — Activist investor Nelson Peltz is calling off a proxy fight with Disney one day after newly returned CEO Bob Iger announced a major restructuring of the company that includes thousands of job cuts. In response, airlines have been in a hiring frenzy that is likely to continue for several years as the carriers replace pilots who reach the federal mandatory retirement age of 65. ___

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How Delhi hopes to combat water shortage this summer (NNN)

DJB officials said details of the demand and supply of water at the ward-level are being chalked out for each Assembly constituency in order to identify areas ...

You can read the [original article](https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/delhi-combat-water-shortage-this-summer-8435889/) here. [DJB](https://nnn.ng/tag/djb/)) is in the process of preparing ‘micro-level’ action plans to deal with water shortage this summer. In consultation with MLAs, the board is making lists of areas where residents face acute water shortage, according to a communication issued Thursday.

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Pharmacy technician shortage causes strain in hospital and retail ... (The State News)

A shortage of pharmacy technicians has been caused by low pay and high job stress, Michigan Pharmacists Association CEO Mark Glasper said.

Glasper said that the staffing issue could be alleviated by raising wages for pharmacy technicians. “A lot of people don’t really know what the pharmacy technician does," Binion said. “It’s not really a ‘clock hour,’ like ‘I’m going to do my eight hours and go home.'" “It’s definitely an opportunity for them if they stay in the field. Less availability in accredited programs means the pharmacy technicians that are starting out in the field will receive on-the-job training from their employers, Binion said. “It slows down the process which does lead to frustration.”

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Firm lays the foundations for new roles in plastering (shropshirestar.com)

A Telford company has pledged to ensure skills are not lost by launching a plastering apprenticeship.

"So we have realised this is important and we need to pass on the experience of our staff. I have been in the industry for 40 years and I still get a buzz out of plastering a wall. We have come to a point where there's no new blood coming through with the skills.

Drug Shortage Helps Identify Optimal Tocilizumab Dosing for ... (Infectious Disease Advisor)

Tocilizumab 8 mg/kg was associated with the greatest survival benefit among patients with COVID-19 in an analysis of different dosing strategies of IL-6 ...

[A comparison of the effectiveness of different doses of tocilizumab and sarilumab in the treatment of severe COVID-19: a natural experiment due to drug shortages](https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(23)00041-3/fulltext). Receipt of tocilizumab 8 mg/kg also was associated with the lowest risk of mortality in a subgroup analysis among only patients who required ICU admission. The 8 mg/kg would therefore be the first-choice treatment option,” the researchers concluded. Treatment with tocilizumab 8 mg/kg was found to be associated with the greatest survival benefit. [immunocompromised](https://www.infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com/home/topics/covid19/immunocompromised-individuals-lower-uptake-covid-19-vaccine-boosters/). They added that using fixed-dose or low-dose tocilizumab in response to drug shortages, as a way to treat more patients, “should be considered with caution. Compared with patients in group 1, the risk for progression to ICU admission or mortality was highest among patients in group 4 (HR, 1.43; 95% CI, 1.26-1.63), followed by those in group 3 (HR, 1.41; 95% CI, 1.22-1.63) and group 2 (HR, 1.24; 95% CI, 1.09-1.42). The overall rate of in-hospital mortality was 26.7%. Differences in survival time and mortality risk were evaluated via multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression, with adjustments for age, sex, immunocompromised status, and Charlson comorbidity index score. These study findings were published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases. Compared with patients in group 1, the risk of 60-day mortality was highest among those in group 4 (hazard ratio [HR], 1.24; 95% CI, 1.08-1.42), followed those in groups 2 (HR, 1.20; 95% CI, 1.04-1.39) and 3 (HR, 1.12; 95% CI, 0.97-1.31). The treatment options were as follows:

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153 years on: A risk of food shortage - The Fiji Times (Fiji Times)

While speaking at a Fiji Teachers Association conference, renowned Professor Frank Brosnahan warned teachers present of the grave risk of food shortages, ...

“We need seek no further for the main reason why Fiji today is in the sad position of needing to import $37 million worth of food. “This would be the fate of Fiji.” Hungry men and starving children led almost inevitably to theft, riots, confrontation, and social disruption, perhaps even the breakdown of law and order, he said. It seemed inescapable that the ordinary people of Fiji consumed the bulk of this food, not tourists and travelers. Prof Brosnahan said he did not believe that anywhere in the Third World food was so plentiful and nutritious such as those in the Pacific Islands. He said he did not believe the schools and teachers of Fiji were fulfilling their responsibilities as well as they should do if the country was to avoid being overtaken by disaster. Secondly, they had to be convinced of the absolute necessity of controlling their population.

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Mohamad: Shortage of workers among causes of egg supply ... (New Straits Times Online)

SEREMBAN: The Agriculture and Food Security Ministry will overcome the problem of shortage of workers, which is one of the factors causing the lack of ...

Shortage of mental-health staff alarming (Altoona Mirror)

The federal Health Resources and Services Administration says about 158.4 million Americans currently live in areas with shortages of mental-health workers, ...

That is not a new message on the mental-health landscape, but the ongoing question remains whether enough federal and state government officials have their ears open to the pleas being directed their way. Many Republicans and Democrats openly express the opinion in a bipartisan way that improving mental-health services will make strides against the drug problem and the well-being of youth, both of which worsened during the pandemic. The federal Health Resources and Services Administration says about 158.4 million Americans currently live in areas with shortages of mental-health workers, while a decade ago a “mere” 94.8 million people resided in such areas.

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