Your body
If you are eating modestly, most of the food you eat doesn’t exit the body where you think it does. It exits the body from your nose when you breath. PICTURE: Ali Inay/Unsplash Really? You inhale oxygen. You exhale carbon dioxide. Where does the carbon come from? Your food. Food is carbon. Your stomach breaks […]
Medical oxygen running out in Ukraine as war rages, WHO warns
Zurich, SwitzerlandReuters Ukraine is running out of oxygen supplies that critically ill people need, the World Health Organization said on Sunday, calling for safe passage for emergency imports as combat rages. A man carries oxygen cylinders as he enters a hospital for patients infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 9th November, […]
Cuba struggles to get oxygen to the sick, vaccines to the healthy
Havana, CubaReuters Cuba has turned to the military to provide oxygen amid a surge of the coronavirus even as doctors rush to administer locally developed vaccines to the population. The government announced on Sunday that the Caribbean island’s main oxygen plant had broken down in the midst of a Delta variant-driven coronavirus surge that has […]
Indian riders deliver oxygen and groceries to help fight COVID-19
Chennai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation For two long hours, T Ramya stood outside a government hospital in the southern Indian city of Chennai and watched helplessly as her uncle’s condition deteriorated after he fell ill with COVID-19 like millions of others across the country. Ramya had seen this situation unfold in recent news bulletins and knew […]
India’s COVID-19 cases dip from peak, calls for shutdown mount
New Delhi/Bengaluriu, IndiaReuters Calls grew for India to impose a nationwide lockdown as new coronavirus cases and deaths held close to record highs on Monday, increasing pressure on the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The 366,161 new infections and 3,754 deaths reported by the health ministry were off a little from recent peaks, taking […]
India’s coronavirus infections cross 18 million as gravediggers work round the clock
New Delhi/Mumbai, IndiaReuters India’s total COVID-19 cases passed 18 million on Thursday after another world record number of daily infections, as gravediggers worked around the clock to bury victims and hundreds more were cremated in makeshift pyres in parks and parking lots. India reported 379,257 new infections and 3,645 new deaths on Thursday, health ministry […]
India’s coronavirus death toll surpasses 200,000 after record case surge
Bengalaru/New Delhi IndiaReuters India’s COVID-19 death toll surged past 200,000 on Wednesday as shortages of oxygen, medical supplies and hospital staff compounded a record number of new cases of the virus. India’s second wave of COVID-19 infections has seen at least 300,000 people a day test positive for the past week, overwhelming healthcare facilities and […]
Essay: Baghdad hospital fire – what happened and what it tells us about Iraq’s health system
In an article first published on The Conversation, BENJAMIN ISAKHAN, professor of international politics at Deakin University in Australia, looks at what the deadly fire at Baghdad’s Ibn al-Khatib Hospital reveals about Iraq’s heathcare system…
India posts world record COVID cases with oxygen running out
New Delhi, IndiaReuters India recorded the world’s highest daily tally of 314,835 COVID-19 infections on Thursday as a second wave of the pandemic raised new fears about the ability of crumbling health services to cope. Health officials across northern and western India, including the capital, New Delhi, said they were in crisis, with most hospitals […]
Indian COVID-19 patients die as ventilators run out of oxygen; infections surge
Satara, IndiaReuters At least 24 COVID-19 patients in western India died on Wednesday when the oxygen supply to their ventilators ran out, amid a nationwide shortage of the gas and a surge in infections. Maharashtra State Health Minister Rajesh Tope confirmed the deaths at a hospital in Nashik city and said the hospital’s oxygen supply […]