Workers from Surrey Memorial Hospital’s (SMH) women’s health department have written an open letter to the community outlining ongoing problems with their division. “We, the Women’s Health providers at Surrey Memorial Hospital, wish to articulate our deep concern regarding the crisis caused by chronic and pervasive under-resourcing which has led to unsafe conditions and adverse outcomes in our hospital,” reads an introductory excerpt from the letter. This comes less than two weeks after SMH emergency room doctors issued an open letter of their own, detailing a “crisis” at the facility involving what they call “unsafe conditions” in the workplace. Women’s Health providers say this letter comes “both in support and…

World No Tobacco Day (WNTD), which will be observed on May 31, 2023, will be observed by WHO and public health advocates from all over the world. This year’s theme is “We need food, not tobacco”. The 2023 global campaign aims to encourage tobacco farmers to grow nutrient-dense, sustainable crops by increasing awareness of alternative crop production and marketing opportunities. The tobacco industry’s attempts to obstruct efforts to replace tobacco farming with sustainable crops, which worsens the world food crisis, will also be the subject of the campaign. Tobacco Growing and Production Exacerbates Food Insecurity Conflicts and wars, climatic shocks, and the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on the economy and society…