Healthcare in West Phoenicia

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Healthcare

• Minister of Health: Dr Kiri Alfred

• Minister of Mental Health: Hon Vanessa Wizard

• Minister of Aged Care: Hon Inga Horne

• Secretary for Ministry of Health: Glory Hallowseve

• Chief Medical Officer: Dr Alamein Hughes

Health care in West Phoenicia is provided by both private and government institutions. The Minister for Health, currently Dr Kiri Alfred, administers national health policy, and city-state governments administer elements of health care within their jurisdictions, such as the operation of hospitals.

MediAid is the National Public Health Care system that is available to all citizens given them access to the public health system, public dentists and public hospital access.

West Phoenicia also has Private Health for those citizens who want to pay for a better quality of heathcare, choice of doctor and access to a private hospital. Many private hospitals also adhere to the Let them eat cake act, allowing only the aristocracy and rich access irregardless of whether someone has private healthcare. These are known as Platinum Hospitals.

Mental Health

Mental Health is taken seriously in West Phoenicia.

Each city-state has a number of mental health facilities specializing in the treatment of serious psychiatric illnesses, such as autism, down syndrome, clinical depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. Psychiatric hospitals vary widely in their size and grading. Some hospitals may specialize only in short-term or outpatient therapy for low-risk patients. Others specialize in the temporary or permanent care of residents who, as a result of a psychological disorder, require routine assistance, treatment, or a specialized and controlled environment.

All government workplaces have on site counsellors and healers who are there to support employees.

Immunization

Immunization is not enforced in West Phoenicia. Parents have the right to choose to vaccinate their children or not. Mandatory immunization and vaccinations were lifted in 1980. Since than there has been a slow decline in parents vaccinating.

Current statistics show that 75% of citizens still vaccinate while 25% do not.

Many ardent supporters of the True Path choose not to vaccinate, rather leaving it in God's hands. Many others opt out of vaccinating as West Phoenicia is a healthy country where childhood diseases 100 hundred years ago have now been eradicated, better access to healthcare facilities and infant mortality rate is at an all time low.

Euthanasia

Euthanasia is illegal in West Phoenicia. Any doctor or nurse found assisting a patient to end their life, faces being sent to prison. Support for Euthanasia in West Phoenicia stands at 4%.

Faith Healing Centres

Many West Phoenicians are supporters of alternative forms of medicine.

Many devout members of the True Path rather than seeing a Western medicine doctor choose rather to attend Faith Centres that are located in all major cities. Here patients undergo faith healing with registered Spiritual Physicians that deal in touch healing and prayer healing for their ailments.

Meanwhile many pagans have also opted out of seeing traditional western doctors rather placing their care in Medicine Women, Witch Doctors, pagan priests and priestess which are operated in centres known as Healing Centres or Healing Grottos.

Healing centres operate in a number of the pagan temples mainly in those temples dedicated to healing deities. The Apollo worship centre in Selene Valley is one of the biggest in West Phoenicia.

See Also

West Phoenicia