Cairo, Egypt (AFP): Sudan’s already troubled health sector faces the risk of “disaster” after more than two weeks of heavy fighting have rocked the poverty-stricken country, a UN World Health Organization official warns. Even before the deadly conflict broke out on April 15, “the healthcare system in Sudan faced numerou...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): The UN on Monday warned that more than 800,000 people could flee fighting in Sudan, where gun battles and explosions again shook the capital in violation of the latest truce agreed between warring generals. The chaos and bloodshed, now in their third week, have already sparked an exodus of tens of thousands of […]...
Ramallah, Palestinian Territories (AFP): A Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike for more than 80 days is being held in “difficult” conditions, his wife told AFP Friday after an advocacy group warned his health is deteriorating. Khader Adnan, 45, a leading figure in the Islamic Jihad group in the north of the occupied West Bank, wa...
LONDON (AA) – The British Red Cross has highlighted the limited access to basic healthcare services for asylum seekers in England due to a lack of digital services. A report by the Red Cross indicated asylum seekers avoid seeking medical assistance altogether because of the absence of internet connectivity. The digitalization of healthcare ser...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) — One in every four children in Bangladesh under the age of five was found to be stunted, due mainly to poor diet and malnutrition, according to the results of a national health survey. Poverty, child marriage, and lack of access to nutritious foods are among the major causes behind the poor […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury, who founded the first hospital in Bangladesh in 1971, died on Tuesday. He was 81. He was admitted to Gonoshasthaya Kendra, the hospital he founded, several days ago in Dhaka and had been on life support since Monday, Monjur Kader Ahmed, a senior hospital official, told reporters. The [&he...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Mohammad Ayub was waiting in a long queue for his shoulder treatment, the second visit to a bonesetter after tripping in his home washroom. The 49-year-old chemistry teacher in Srinagar, the capital of Indian-occupied Kashmir, had a good experience with a bonesetter because he took his son to the […]
TEHRAN (AA) – On June 2 last year, after reporting zero deaths from COVID-19 following two years of multiple devastating waves, Iran’s Health Minister Bahram Einollahi congratulated the nation. Ten months on, the Middle East’s worst-hit country is grappling with the eighth wave of the coronavirus pandemic — an alarming surge in new...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Climate change-driven salinity is posing serious health problems to pregnant women and child health in Bangladesh, experts say. “Salinity has taken everything I had – my unborn child. We were born in the land of salt, and live in salinity. We have accepted our fate and endured the misery we are […]
ANKARA (AA) – Indian health authorities have canceled the license of a pharmaceutical firm that manufactured cough syrup linked to the deaths of at least 19 children in Uzbekistan last year. The action comes just days after three employees of Marion Biotech, located in Noida in northern Uttar Pradesh state, were arrested by police after [&hell...
