AGP Executive Report
Last update: 6 hours agoHealth and Press Freedom: Ecuador’s Expreso has ended its print edition after 53 years. Its publisher says alleged government pressure and financial strain followed reporting on healthcare-sector business interests, medicine shortages and barriers to treatment. Healthcare Crisis: Young Ecuadorians called for protests on October 10 over healthcare shortages, insecurity and inequality, citing patients who have died amid hospital medicine shortages. In Cuenca, dialysis patients are also demanding overdue state payments, warning that debts threaten treatment providers. Food Policy: Health advocates, academics and civil society groups in Quito discussed stronger rules to keep industrial trans fats off Ecuador’s shelves; non-communicable diseases account for more than 76% of deaths in the country.
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