Nagorno-Karabakh residents say “disastrous” blockade choking supplies
Tbilisi, GeorgiaReuters Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh say it is getting harder to access food, medicines and other essential supplies as an Azerbaijani blockade of the breakaway region drags into its ninth month. The UN Security Council discussed the blockade on Wednesday, after a former International Criminal Court prosecutor this month said the blockade may amount to […]
Medical access
Have you taken you pet to the vet recently? Isn’t it hugely expensive!? PICTURE: Matt Seymour/Unsplash You know why don’t you? There is no Medicare for animals in Australia. You have to pay what it actually costs to treat your pet – and my understanding is that vets and vet nurses are paid a lot less […]
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka shuts schools, urges work from home to save fuel
Colombo, Sri LankaReuters Troops in Sri Lanka handed tokens on Monday to people queueing for petrol amid a severe fuel shortage in the nation battling its worst economic crisis in seven decades, while schools shut in Colombo and public employees were asked to work from home. With its foreign exchange reserves at a record low, […]
US says Cuban medical missions are trafficking doctors
Thomson Reuters Foundation United States officials on Thursday called on all nations to stop using Cuba’s medical missions, which send doctors around the world, saying that Cuba refused to pay the medical staff and held them against their will. Cuba’s international medical missions are a form of human trafficking and modern slavery, US State Department […]
Doctors pray for sick as blackout batters Venezuelan hospitals
Reuters Maria Rodriguez’s daughter has spent a month in Caracas’s JM de los Rios children’s hospital with hydrocephalus, a buildup of spinal fluid in the brain, but staff there have faced an uphill battle treating the girl because of a nationwide power outage. “It has been horrible since the blackout. My daughter needs treatment that […]