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This Must Be The Most Clueless Major Health Department Ever And They Are Running Australian E-Health. It Is A Real Worry.

October 7th, 2012 by davidmore
The most astonishing bungle for a good while emerged from the Department of Health (DoHA) last week. Here is some of the coverage: Thousands of dollars worth of anatomically bungled posters to be shredded 4th Oct 2012 AAP ABORIGINAL health posters riddled with errors are destined for the paper shredder, leaving taxpayers thousands of dollars out of pocket. The federal health department has put out an immediate recall on 171 A3-sized posters of the female anatomy produced as part of the Labor government's Live Longer campaign and sent to Indigenous health services across the country. Opposition Indigenous health spokesman Andrew Laming said the posters were a "fiasco", with embarrassing errors such as the lungs labelled stomach, an extra pancreas and ovaries labelled kidneys, along with arrows in the wrong places. "The oesophagus runs into the lung," Dr Laming said in a statement on Wednesday. "The ureters look like they join to the small intestine instead of the...

This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
 
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