Buenos Aires — Led by Health Care Without Harm, thirteen major health organizations including the Society of Pediatrics, the National Nurses Federation, as well as some of the country's leading hospitals, medical and nursing schools, called on the Minister of Health, Dr. Jorge Manzur, to extend the phase-out of mercury in health care and the ban on blood pressure devices to a ban on the commercialization all mercury thermometers. In a letter to the Minister, the groups called for access to safe alternatives for the general population.
- In a letter to the Minister, the groups called for access to safe alternatives for the general population.