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
Ministry of Health
Health care in The Empire of West Phoenicia is provided to citizens by both private and government hospital institutions.
Healthcare is overseen by the Ministry of Health.
The current Minister for Health is Dr Kiri Alfred.
The Chief Medical Officer of West Phoenicia is Dr Alamein Hughes
The West Phoenician government administers national health policy for both public and private hospitals across the Empire.
The national government is also responsible for ApolloIsis Aid; the National Public Health Care universal heathcare system that is available to all citizens. ApolloIsis gives citizens access to public healthcare, public hospitals, cheap pharmasecutals and other health services.
City-state governments administer elements of health care within their jurisdictions; such as the operation of public hospitals, ambulance services, outpatient services and alternative medicine.
Private Health is aavailable for those citizens who wish to pay for a higher quality of healthcare. Private health helps avoid waiting lists, allows a choice of doctor and access to a private platnium hospital. It also includes other benefits such as ones own room, personal nurse and high class menu that caters for your choice of meals.
Mental Health
Mental Health is taken seriously in West Phoenicia.
City-states have multiple health facilities specializing in the treatment of mild to serious psychiatric illnesses. 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.
Cosmetic Surgery
Immunization/Vaccinations
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