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Adapting the public health system to drugs
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The term “public health” is used in various ways but one important meaning refers to the system that monitors for emerging health risks in the population and reports them to an authority that can do something about it. We’ve traditionally thought of this as the key mechanism for control of infectious diseases: people start showing up in doctor’s offices or at hospitals with common ailments, the information gets collated and a national response unfolds. It’s how one would hope a major flu outbreak would be tackled. But where is the system now? Two dead in Waterford. Katy French. Two in hospitals in Longford and Mullingar. Media references to “parties”. Is it that there’s more reporting now of A&E admissions that might have a drug connection? Is there a common supply source linking all these events? Does the HSE know more than the news account can insinuate? Are the HSE and the Gardai talking to each other? God forbid we have yet another health crisis on our hands.
I’m guessing it is just being reported more.