ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) – One in nine children under 5 years of age admitted to health facilities in Pakistan’s flood-battered areas are found to be suffering from “severe acute” malnutrition, according to a UN report. The report released by UNICEF warned that the health facilities are reporting alarming levels of seve...
ANKARA (AA) – Taiwan has reported nearly 40,000 COVID-19 cases and over 90 deaths in the past 24 hours, health authorities have announced. Of the total 39,808 new cases, 39,763 are domestic and 45 are foreign, the Central Epidemic Command Center said in a statement. With 92 deaths due to COVID-19 in the last 24 […]
NABLUS, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian medic was detained by Israeli forces near the West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. A statement by the Society said Fawwaz al-Bitar was taken into custody at the Za’tara checkpoint. No reason was provided for the detention. A video circulated online [&he...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanon has reported an outbreak of cholera among Syrian refugees in the country. Health Minister Firas Abiad said 80 new cases of cholera were recorded in Lebanon, taking the nationwide tally to 169. “Five people have so far died from the illness,” he added at a press conference in the capital […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Drought-ravaged Somalia could soon see “the death of children on a scale not seen in half a century,” the UN has warned, calling for greater action and funding from the international community. “Today in Somalia, every single minute of every single day, a child is admitted to a health facility for […]
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...
