I understand the political ramifications of any conversations around trainee nursing allowances. However, I struggle to make sense ...

File image: Trainee nurses celebrate the restoration of training allowances under the NPP government.

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” Steve Jobs

The fact is, our health system always makes and breaks our hearts. It does because whilst a lot of good goes on, ...

A tale of two halves. Image Courtesy of Contract Surfaces, Inc.

According to Saidi Mdala, “bad luck is what results when bad things happen to you unprepared, or when you neglect to do what you have to do when you are supposed to do it.”

I would conclude by asking, “if spending potentially 38% of our total health expenditure or 2.4% of our GDP on otherwise useless medicines does not push us to rethink our national approach in this area, what would”?

Are Safe and Effective Drugs for All a Mirage or Reality? Image credit - expressrx

Roy T. Bennett in The Light in the Heart argues “Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.” The 25th of September 2019 was World Pharmacists Day, celebrated this year with the theme “Safe and effective medicines for all.”

Sadly, our society has been late in coming to terms with this new reality. Starting from the individual citizen, very few of us are conversant with our basic health information

Framing A Future Path For Health Transparency

According to Brian Tracy, “all successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”