Sentences with phrase «by avoidable deaths»

The outrage and anger here is generally provoked by avoidable deaths — and personally I would not dispute that they can ALSO happen in hospitals, but are much less likely to.

Not exact matches

But consumers should also keep in mind that conditions contributing to an older relative's early death are likely to be more treatable now, or avoidable if we make different choices (say, not smoking or by being more active).

Figures obtained by Norman Lamb, the Liberal Democrat MP, show that the overall number of «serious incidents» — involving unexpected or avoidable deaths, serious harm, injury and abuse — has climbed 34 % to 8,139 a year.

In her speech to donors, the First lady said that considering the current situation at KATH where disturbing number of avoidable deaths of mothers and babies are recorded partly due to inadequate facilities to cater for them, a modern facility to cater for five times the current number will be a major life saving measure to «bring hope not only to families in Ashanti, but also those in the Bono - Ahafo, the three Northern Regions and parts of the Central and Western Regions, who are served by Komfo Anokye Hospital.»

There is no doubt that it was the same protests by the congregants that eventually culminated in this avoidable deaths caused by stampede», he said.

A report released last week by Oxfam and Save the Children argued that the international relief effort was far too slow to get going, leading to thousands of avoidable deaths.

More than a quarter of the avoidable deaths in the developing world are already caused by TB, a disease that kills 3 million people a year — making it a bigger killer even than malaria.

Traffic mishaps caused by drunk, impaired or distracted driving — and which in turn cause life - changing injury and wrongful death — are the most avoidable of all accidents.

It is even more difficult when the death was avoidable, caused by another's negligence or wrongful conduct.

The report showed a significant improvement was made in closing the gap in the number of child deaths — the Indigenous rate decreased by 35 per cent over five years, however Indigenous Australians are three times more likely to die of an avoidable cause.

Aborigines are far worse off than White Australians in relation to housing, health, wealth, social conditions, imprisonment, avoidable death and life expectancy (see Gideon Polya, «Film Review: «Utopia» By John Pilger Exposes Genocidal Maltreatment Of Indigenous Australians By Apartheid Australia», Countercurrents, 14 March, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya140314.htm; Gideon Polya, «Ongoing Aboriginal Genocide And Aboriginal Ethnocide By Politically Correct Racist Apartheid Australia», Countercurrents, 16 February 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya160214.htm; «Aboriginal Genocide»: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/; MacRae A, Thomson N, Anomie, Burns J, Catto M, Gray C, Levitan L, McLoughlin N, Potter C, Ride K, Stumpers S, Trzesinski A, Urquhart B (2013).