101 staff working for the United Nation Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) working with and for Palestine Refugees have been…
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The UN’s health agency WHO said on Sunday night that according to the Gaza health authorities, 37 premature babies at the hospital were relocated over the weekend to an operating room without their incubators, with health workers trying to heat the room. According to the latest media reports on Monday, six babies at Al-Shifa have died.
The World Health Organization has verified over 250 attacks on healthcare in Gaza and the West Bank raising alarm over the reports on repeated attacks on hospitals.
A family physician, Dr. Oluwajimi Sodipo, has appealed to the Federal government to ensure responsible pricing mechanism of life saving medicine to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases in the country.
Uganda has established a modern bone marrow transplant (BMT) facility, that will help reduce numbers of patients seeking transplants abroad where they part with between US$40,000 to $50,000 [about Ug. Shillings 150m-200m] to treat one patient (medical procedure and accommodation during recovery) for at least one month in India, alone. The Ugandan facility, the first-of-the-kind in the nation, has been set up by the State-run Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC) at Lubowa, south of Kampala.
With over 400 million projected population in Nigeria by 2050, the Institute of health service administrators of Nigeria, IHSAN, has charged the Federal Government to urgently expand and modernize healthcare services in the country to meet needs of Nigerians.
Some residents of the federal capital territory (FCT) have expressed different views about services offered by accredited health insurance hospitals in the territory.
Sahara Group Foundation, the Personal and Corporate Social Impact vehicle of Sahara Group, has reaffirmed its dedication to healthcare improvement by donating state-of-the-art medical equipment to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) in Edo State, Nigeria.
Enugu State vaccinated 220,000 girls against the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) between Oct. 24 and Oct. 29, recording a 66 per cent coverage rate.
Dr Sola Pitan, Medical Director, Orile Agege General Hospital (OAGH), Lagos, has urged healthcare providers to leverage technology and innovative ways to address challenges affecting healthcare delivery.