The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) says the outbreak of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Norway is finished. The source of the outbreak was believed to be a disposable washcloth that was pre-soaked. The outbreak started in October 2021 and ran until May 2022. Till the pseudomonas outbreak lasted, 40 hospitals got involved and over 380…
According to Johannes Gaeseb, who serves as the director of tertiary medical care and clinical support services in the ministry of health, Namibia is trying to cope with a growing demand for pre-hospital services as a result of an increasing number of events of trauma caused by automobile accidents, acts of violence, and a wide…
The Medical Council of Malta, which is responsible for regulating the healthcare professionals in Malta, has sent a bizarre notification to all Maltese-registered dentists and doctors. In the letter, it complains that it is unable to come to grips with all the tasks it has, that it is grossly underfunded, and most importantly, that its…
Magnus Heunicke, the Danish Minister of Health has verified that the BA.5 Omicron subvariant is now the leading cause of infection in Denmark’s recent spike. The minister revealed this in a Tuesday post on his official Twitter handle. In the previous week, the variant accounted for 32% of new infections. That figure has shot up…
Paul Biya, Head of State for Cameroon has donated medical equipment worth 80mn FCFA to the Mamfe District Hospital. This happened soon after an arson attack destroyed parts of the facility earlier this month. This aid is called emergency aid” and was given the handover to the medical authorities, by Mengot Victor Arrey, the minister…
Along with a huge amount of investment from the USA, in the direction of improvement of the health systems of the country with additionally supporting health education, the officer in charge of affairs in the US Embassy near Monrovia has said that there is a dire need to prioritize the health sector so that future…
Health Minister Hon. Moses Jn Baptiste was recently visited by the Caribbean Health Agency’s Management Team to discuss important matters like sustainable development and its importance for public health and environmental health issues. Dr. Joy St. John, Executive Director of the CARPHA said that this trip would provide the team with a good opportunity to…
An electronic gadget with the power to inactivate the coronavirus and all its primary mutants in aerosol in an indoor setting is helping to combat the spread of the pandemic. The device called E4Shield is a product of Elettronica Group (which specializes in electronic guard systems) in collaboration with Lendlease (an urban regeneration and real…
In order to reduce the number of fatalities among girls and pregnant women in Yemen, the King Salman Humanitarian Aid & Relief Center has intensified its collaboration with a UN health organization. On Tuesday, representatives from KSrelief and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) signed a contract to offer reproductive health care to women in…
In a press announcement, the Port Vila Family Health Center Director Dustin Tate informed the public that the clinic will be introducing a new lab with an onsite X-ray. Vila Central Hospital’s (VCH) decentralization policy has been followed by the Family Health Clinic. This comes as a move to encourage the patients to avail themselves…
To support the Cancer patients of Samoa, the New Zealand High Commission has donated a total of 19,000 talas to the Samoa Cancer Society. Su’a John Ryan, the CEO said that the donation was to help the Society purchase accessory such as supply colostomy bags for the patients. Colostomy bags are used to collect feces…
The Pipeline Mosque Foundation has sent 700 sets of brand-new bed linens to the eight largest hospitals in the nation, continuing a tradition that started a few years ago. The donations came from a well-known Gambian businessman, Ahman Ghanim Diab of Emporium, who also sent the Kanifing General Hospital a check for D50,000 as part of…
The number of kidney dialysis patients grows by 4 per cent every year in Suriname. This is 35 to 40 new patients per year. According to Leon Brunings, chairman of the Kidney Foundation Suriname (NSS), 850 people are on dialysis throughout Suriname. He said this on June 21 while handing over the collected funds for…
Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Health emphasised the necessity of improving global health coordination and strengthening global health systems. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has announced its support to the G20’s working group on the worldwide epidemic preparedness, prevention, and response as well as the need to make sure continues funding to fight against the global…
Two weeks back booster shots were announced by the Ministry of Health and Population for children between the age of 12 to 17-year-old, but most districts have not started vaccinating due to budget limitations. District health workers say they can’t afford the booster dose campaign. Krishna Bahadur Mijar, chief of Health Office Bhaktapur, said the…
Diaspora organizations and individuals donated $300 million to Jamaica during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yesterday the Diaspora Conference for Health and Wellness took place. The Chief medical officer of Jamaica, Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, also took part in the Conference. Members of the diaspora, including the CMO, Dr. Gary Rhule, the co-chair of Jamaica Diaspora North East,…
Leonardo Cipriani, the State Health Services Administration (ASSE) President, said that progress is being made in the negotiation with the laboratories due to the lack of medicines that were generated by production problems. Cipriani on the problem with drugs: “What the Society of National Laboratories said on Monday is right, these products are in the…
On Tuesday, a US court gave a ruling that a patent for Novartis AG’s multiple sclerosis medicine Gilenya was not valid, making the way for a less expensive generic version of the drug. The case was overturned by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, which hears patent appeals. The panel’s decision revives the bid of…
A subcommittee of Spain’s Congress of Deputies accepted a draught bill to regulate a few medical cannabis selling, referring the proposal to the Commission of Health for a vote this week. Despite the fact that the proposed legislation calls for extremely strict distribution rules, it is being lauded as the first step toward greater access….
As part of its dedication to ensuring that patients have prompt access to care, the Ophthalmology Department at the Ambulatory Care Center, a division of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), has launched more than 20 additional weekly clinics. “We have boosted the number of patients visiting our clinics by more than 20% each week by opening…
The Ministry of Health (MoH) said on Monday that a survey will be taken to determine the impacts of the Covid-19 outbreak on a diet, nutrition, and methods of service delivery in Brunei, Darussalam. The poll will be available via the BruHealth app beginning tomorrow. Participants will be chosen at random and asked to fill out a questionnaire. The survey’s results will help…
ICU supplies and equipment worth $199,000 were given to the Kitengela Sub-County Hospital on June 10th, 2022. Kitengela Sub-County Hospital was equipped with better medical capabilities thanks to KOICA’s collaboration with Kajiado County Government and UNOPS. The hospital was initially built by KOICA in 2008 as a health facility, and it was officially opened as…
Today, the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute revealed a new long-term strategy that calls for bringing services into the community. One of the five-year goals of the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute is to move outpatient and long-term care services into the community, as well as acute inpatient mental health services to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, which is…
Egyptian Medical Syndicate has released a document that shows there were 11,586 resignations of Egyptian physicians from government hospitals in the last 3 years which the document calls an “extraordinary brain drain”. Also, in the report by Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper which is domiciled in London, 50% of the 212,000 (that is 110,000) physicians in the country…
The Dominican Republic, according to psychiatrist Ángel Almánzar, there severe shortage of psychiatric beds in the country. He opines this as a result of years of research into the country’s actual situation in the field of mental health and poor efforts to make changes aiming at the enhancement of the medical system as compared to…
If you’ve waited hours in an Ontario ER to see a doctor or to be hospitalized, you may not have not known the reason for the long wait. The major reason for the perennially extended wait is the onset of COVID-19 in Ontario which is now being exacerbated by the pandemic’s impact on the system,…
A decrease in the transmission of COVID-19 is predicted by vaccination, according to health officials. Children should be vaccinated because of the current scientific evidence, says Dr. James Fong, the Permanent Secretary, “In the same way that you put your faith in the procedure when you take pills and other drugs that you take, we…
Health care workers in Zimbabwe went on strike on Monday, June 20 after their appeal for a wage increase of one hundred percent was turned down recently. They are continuing to press their demand for payment in U.S. dollars despite the continued devaluation of the Zimbabwean dollar. The principal nurses’ union in Zimbabwe encouraged the…
The Taiwan Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first verified case of Japanese Encephalitis this year, on Monday. The patient is in his 50s from Tainan City’s Beimen District, who has no recent local or overseas travel history and whose customary activities revolve primarily around his residence. On June 7, 2022, he developed a fever, and after…
Omanis are excited about Yoga as a health supplement. All Omani communities are becoming more interested in yoga. Regardless of nationality or race, geography or religion- diabetes, back and joint pain, high blood pressure, and heart disease are all equally dangerous. All of us, rich or poor, are at risk. 41 million people die each…
Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) explained that the focus of the country is moving from making its own vaccines to getting the fundamental technology on how to make vaccines. Dr. Osagie Ehanire, the Health Minister made this known during the Ministerial Press briefing (that happens twice a week) on coronavirus and other contagious sicknesses…
Three Brazilian patients have been granted permission by a court to cultivate marijuana for medicinal purposes. It is likely that this approval will soon be implemented all over the country. The nation’s Superior Court of Justice came to the unanimous conclusion that patients should be allowed to produce cannabis as well as extract its oil…
InterCure Ltd. announced the successful launch of Austria’s first flagship Cookies store in Vienna’s Neubau district. Cookies’ unique CBD menu is now available in Europe for the first time at the flagship location. Pharmaceutical grade medical cannabis, including Cookies EU-GMP THC products, will be available to Austrian patients as regulations evolve. Following the two companies’…
Salesforce and Fujitsu have announced the beginning of their collaboration for creating new digital solutions to back the Japanese healthcare sector. These two companies will look to promote the initiative by using Fujitsu’s long expertise in handling of pharmaceutical and medical data, as well as its computing technologies combined with Salesforce Japan’s stellar credentials as…
Professor Fanning made it known during a session on Newstalk Breakfast that making the wearing of facemasks compulsory may not yield any significant result due to the nature of the infection curve at the moment. It is hard to tell by how much wearing masks can stop the spread, he said. At the moment, the…
A total of 82 nurses including newly graduated nurses from Solomon Islands National University (SINU), as well as the Atoifi College of nursing have started their twelve months supervised training programs (also known as internships), starting this week. Early this week, the 82 nurses who had signed up for the program officially began their internships….
Iceland is experiencing a surge that is thrice more than many other years in the prescription of stimulants for attention loss hyperactivity syndrome. The market for such medications has experienced a 170% jump in the last decade. According to Vísir reports, 1 in every 20 Icelanders uses the drug. “More people are showing signs of…
Professor Kelvin Yeung Wai-kwok of the Department of orthopaedics and traumatology, school of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKU Med) has developed a non invasive technique to revive the bactericidal effects of conventional medicines in Multi Drug Resistance (MDR) Escherichia-coli (E.coli) associated deep tissue infections such as Urinary Tract…
LynxCare, an AI-powered medical data platform in Belgium, has raised €20 m to expand internationally. MTIP, a Swiss healthtech investor, led the Series A investment, which was joined by Elaia and the company’s early investors Heran Partners, PMV and BTOV. For some time, hospitals have been digitising and now have access to massive amounts of…
According to MP Sultanbai Aijigitov at the plenary session of Parliament on June 22, migrant laborers in Russia paid $35,000 for an X-ray machine for the residents of Samarkandek, which is in the Batken district of Kyrgyzstan. The donation was a gesture of goodwill, and the X-Ray machine will be used to treat residents in…
Working with a university clinic in France’s southern region, Hemcheck has fruitfully concluded assessment research of one of its products called v-Test, at the resident medical laboratory. The evaluation study verifies the high performance of the test as well as its robust association with confirmed reference techniques while also establishing the relevance of the products…
There are hundreds of people in Cyprus who suffer from chronic ailments and rely on medicinal cannabis. Sadly the prescription system is moving at a snail pace, which makes them suffer, in the real meaning of this word. A significant number of these individuals receive their medical cannabis either from Israel, dubious websites, or in…
As they do with other vulnerable groups, the government should also take into consideration the needs of people with psychosocial disabilities, according to Mulima Kasote, President, Mental Health Users Network of Zambia (MHUNZA). In addition, Kasote claims that the arrival of COVID-19 has resulted in a variety of financial difficulties. In an interview, Kasote stated…
The Public Health Ministry of Qatar (MoPH) is collaborating with HMC (Hamad Medical Corporation) & PHCC (Primary Health Care Corporation) to train cadres that deal in sign language in order to remove barriers that people with disabilities face while attempting to connect with the healthcare system. The Ministry offered fundamental training sessions in sign language…
Shehbaz Sharif, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, has launched a nationwide CPR training program. Shehbaz Sharif has started a CPR training program, according to Salman Sufi, the head of the Prime Minister’s Strategic Reforms. Salman Sufi expressed his delight at the opening of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s CPR project on Twitter. “CPR has saved innumerable…
The Guyana Prison Service (GPS) conducted mental health training for 13 of their officers on Sunday. Senior Psychologist Dr. Balogun Osunbiyi gave a 5-day training on mental health to these officers. Nickson Elliot, the Director of Prisons at the graduation ceremony said the GPS wants to improve the standard of staff while bettering the prisoners…
With more patients, important survival drugs in various hospitals are running out quickly, therefore it’s now a severe issue, said GMOA Media Committee Member Dr. Prasad Kolabage. The number of hospital admissions is rising, and there is a shortage of drugs in every facility, Dr. Kolabage added. He told the reporters that the number of…
According to the Chinese National Health Commission (NHC), the country is preparing to launch a countrywide effort to provide and enhance psychological wellbeing for the elderly. The campaign, that will launch from 2022 and go on to 2025, intends to evaluate the elderly’s requirements and help enhance their psychological health awareness. It will also provide…
During the COVID-19 pandemic, various diaspora organisations and individuals contributed $300 million to Jamaica’s healthcare sector. Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, the island’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO), revealed this at the recent Diaspora Conference Health and Wellness session. While discussing recent developments in the sector, the CMO stated that representatives of the Jamaican diaspora continue to play…
Health Minister Daniel Salinas said that he expected greater vaccination against Covid in children and drew attention to the circulation of the flu virus. “We are in a situation of relative control, with a low percentage of beds occupied by or with Covid,” said Health Minister Daniel Salinas when asked about the current moment of…
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