Sudan’s war exacts deadly toll on dialysis patients, leaves bodies rotting
Cairo, EgyptReuters Kidney dialysis patients are dying and dead bodies have been left to decompose in a morgue and in city streets as Sudan’s war rages on, despite efforts by volunteers and aid workers to keep critical healthcare running. Sudan’s health sector was already on the edge of collapse due to a lack of resources before […]
Medical access: Liberated villages offer glimpse of precarious Ukrainian health system
ELIZABETH PIPER and VITALII HYIDYI, of Reuters, report…
Mexico’s Indigenous towns impose their own coronavirus lockdowns
Mexico City, Mexico Thomson Reuters Foundation Indigenous communities across Mexico have installed blockades and imposed curfews in a bid to protect their isolated towns from the new coronavirus, leaders and local officials said. In areas of at least five of the country’s states there have been shutdowns in communities that are often used to self-organising […]
POSTCARDS: AS VENEZUELA’S HEALTH SYSTEM CRUMBLES, PREGNANT WOMEN FLEE TO COLOMBIA
ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of ThomsoN Reuters Foundation, reports on the plight of Venezuelan women forced to give birth in neighbouring Colombia as the healthcare infrastructure in their own nation crumbles…