Banjul, Gambia (AFP): When Wuri Bailo Keita’s two-year-old daughter Fatoumatta developed a fever, he took her to hospital where she was diagnosed with malaria and sent home with a prescription for a paracetamol syrup. Less than a week later she was dead. The infant is just one of 69 Gambian children who have died of […]
KAMPALA, Uganda (AA) – World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has reiterated that clinical trials for vaccines to combat the Sudan strain of Ebola could start within weeks in Uganda. In a virtual address to a high-level emergency meeting of Africa regional health officials in Kampala, Tedros said seve...
Johi, Pakistan (AFP): His head haloed by a whirlwind of mosquitoes, Aamir Hussain stands on the roof of his home in southern Pakistan surveying the fetid floodwaters all around. Four months after the start of record monsoon rains linked to climate change, the standing water has curdled into a pestilent soup breeding malaria, cholera and [&hell...
ANKARA (AA) – The World Health Organization has issued a medical product alert for four contaminated medicines detected in Gambia which have been potentially linked with acute kidney injuries and 66 child deaths. “The four medicines are cough and cold syrups produced by Maiden Pharmaceuticals Limited in India. WHO is conducting further i...
Rabat, Morocco (AFP): At least 19 people have died and dozens of others hospitalised after consuming toxic alcohol from a roadside kiosk in northern Morocco. Police arrested a 48-year-old suspect in connection with the incident, the Directorate General of National Security (DGSN) said in a statement. The victims are thought to have consumed th...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – An international medical charity has said that it is witnessing a catastrophic health crisis in northwest Nigeria because of the extraordinarily high numbers of children being treated with malnutrition. Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French acronym, MSF, said in a statement since January, teams, in collabo...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Canada will drop its COVID-19 measures October 1 for those entering the country, including requirements for proof of vaccinations, tests and masks, the government has announced. Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said the border measures were ended because travelers “no longer influence in a significant wayR...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh has announced that it will resume issuing tourist visas, ending the restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision is part of the government’s measures to revive the tourism industry, which has suffered significant losses due to the coronavirus crisis, said Md. Mahbub Ali, the state minister...
Al-Kasrah, Syria – (AFP): In a hospital in Syria crowded with women and wailing children, Ahmad al-Mohammad writhes in pain beside his wife after they contracted cholera, which is resurging for the first time in years. During his six days in treatment, Mohammad has watched patients stream into the Al-Kasrah hospital in the eastern provin...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Nine-month-old Nayma is being given a high dose of drugs under the careful watch of physicians at a health center in Bangladesh capital Dhaka. She has been diagnosed with a deadly drug-resistant form of tuberculosis. Nayma has been provided treatment for the last three months for MultiDrug Resistant Tuberculosis,...
