YOUR SAY: COVID ward in cancer hospital is a disappointing move

After all this time without significant COVID numbers in our locality and our hospitals, medicos, nurses, staff and patients being kept free from COVID infection because of protocols put in place, why on earth would they risk contamination being transmitted to everyone that works at the cancer hospital as well as the patients?

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Our governments and councils have had plenty of time to build a special facility for future COVID patients, without putting everyone at the Albury cancer hospital at risk.

It is unbelievable that this is to be put in place and I hope responsible people make alternative arrangements to remove this undertaking.

Have you heard of the fire brigade, who when they got the first call of a small fire in a house had a policy of not responding straight away?

They said the householder might put it out and save them a trip.

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Instead, they waited until they got a second call to say the fire had spread throughout the house, then they thought it was worth responding.

Needless to say, eight out of 10 houses burnt down. This is a senseless policy.

But what is the difference with the present policy of treating people infected with COVID?

When a person first becomes infected, there is no treatment given.

Just go home, isolate and see if your immune system can defeat the virus?

And while isolating infect all your close contacts.

Only when you have difficulty breathing, you are told to go to hospital, where you will be treated but by then the situation is very serious, complications and death are real possibility.

There is a low-cost generic drug treatment for COVID-19, (with a 40-year safety record) which is being used in 20 countries.

In these countries, 63 studies involving 47,437 patients showed a 65 per cent improvement in their condition.

However, in Australia the TDA is stopping the use of this treatment.

The TDA should be forced to review the data and approve the use of this generic drug treatment.

Please urgently contact the federal Health Minister and your local MP to have this senseless policy changed.

In our society there's a tendency to blame people who struggle with gambling, to assign to them some kind of character flaw.

But the truth is that gambling affects how the brain functions, which means anyone can become addicted to it.

Brain scans show that people with a gambling addiction build up a tolerance to dopamine, the chemical released in the brain when we experience pleasure.

This means that, over time, they need to gamble more and more to feel the same level of pleasure or to satisfy an urge to gamble, even if it no longer gives them pleasure.

Fortunately, the brain can be re-trained to reverse a gambling addiction, as explained in videos featuring University of Melbourne neuroscientist Dr Jared Cooney Horvath, available at gamblershelp.com.au.

And free, confidential advice, referral and support is available 24/7 on 1800 858 858.

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