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Inequality must be tackled
Leaders from the Asian business community are calling on the Government to demonstrate its commitment to tackling inequality in health. It comes after a Public Health England
(PHE) report said racism and social inequality had led to a disproportionate number of Covid-19 cases among Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities. The report – ‘Beyond the data:
Understanding the impact of Covid-19 on BAME groups’– was published a fortnight after a PHE review confirmed deaths from the virus were highest among patients from BAME backgrounds. But the initial findings did not include recommendations on tackling the disparity. The new report also confirmed that Covid-19 has replicated existing health inequalities and, in some cases, increased them. PHE, which engaged with 4,000
representatives from BAME communities, has now published a number of recommendations: • Routine ethnicity data collection and recording across medical setting, including mandatory collection of ethnicity data on
death certification;
• More research to better understand the impact of Covid-19 on BAME communities.
• Improving access, experience, and outcomes for BAME communities across care systems;
• Quickly develop a ‘culturally competent’ occupational risk assessment tool to reduce the risk of BAME staff's exposure to, and contraction of, Covid-19;
• Better Covid-19 education and prevention campaigns;
• Specific health promotion and disease prevention programmes;
• An effective Covid-19 recovery strategy that actively reduces wider health inequality.
Anjum Khan, director of the Asian Business Chamber of Commerce, said: “PHE recommendations should not be delayed. This would be a failure to protect the BAME communities who have been disproportionately affected by Covid-19. There must be accountability in delivering these vital recommendations immediately.”
A business leader is urging traders on Alum Rock Road to report burglaries to the police after a spate of break-ins. Aftab Chughtai (pictured),
vice-chair of Saltley Business Association, a trading association on Alum Rock Road in Birmingham, and executive committee member of Asian Business Chamber of Commerce, is making the call after swathes of burglaries in the area. Businesses were not reporting these crimes to the police, according to Mr Chugtai. However, after traders came forward to notify
the business association of the break-ins, Mr Chughtai contacted West Midlands Police to notify them of the burglaries. He said that although this spate of break-ins had now been notified to the police, the burglaries highlight the risk of under-reporting of such crimes and has urged businesses to always report them. Mr Chughtai said: “What we would advise traders
to do is to contact police and report immediately, as the force needs to be aware of these crimes.”
Spate of break-ins prompts call for action
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