Buckling Gaza health service turns to volunteers
GazaReuters Gaza medical chiefs are turning to volunteers to help run an emergency service buckling under Israel’s offensive as ambulances struggle to reach bomb sites past rubble-strewn roads and with ever-depleting supplies of fuel. Medical and emergency staff have worked with little rest and are deploying in the most dangerous areas, witnessing the horror of […]
Medics and volunteers try to prop up Ukraine’s health system
London, UK Reuters When Russian bombs started falling on Kyiv, oncologist Nataliia Verovkina fled with her 10-year-old son. But once he was safe in Munich with his grandparents, she turned around and went back. “Someone had to help these people,” Verovkina, 43, who works at Ukraine’s National Cancer Institute, said by phone from the capital. […]
COVID-19: How the coronavirus pandemic became a ‘boon’ for a battered Indian hospital
KRISHNA N DAS, of Reuters, reports on how the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital is getting a new lease on life thanks to the coronavirus pandemic…
In Kabul children’s hospital, medics struggle with staff shortages
Kabul, AfghanistanReuters In Kabul’s main children’s hospital, the crumbling of Afghanistan’s health system is reflected in the eyes of exhausted staff as they eke out fast-diminishing stocks of medicines. As crowds of mothers and sick children fill waiting rooms in the Indira Gandhi Children’s Hospital, medical staff are squeezing three babies into a single incubator […]
Australian doctors warn health system may “capsize” when COVID-19 curbs ease
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australian doctors on Thursday warned the country’s hospitals are not ready to cope with the government’s reopening plans, even with higher vaccination rates, as some states prepare to move from a virus suppression strategy to living with COVID-19. The Australian Medical Association said the health system was in danger of being locked into […]
Myanmar COVID-19 outbreak hits health system shattered after coup
Reuters Breathless, fevered and without the extra oxygen that could help keep them alive, the new coronavirus patients at a hospital near Myanmar’s border with India highlight the threat to a health system near collapse since February’s coup. To help her tend the seven COVID-19 patients at Cikha hospital, day and night, chief nurse Lun […]