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Karachi mob attacks polio vaccination team, 6 people arrested
2 days, 20 hours ago

Karachi mob attacks polio vaccination team, 6 people arrested

ABP News  

Karachi, Dec 20 : A polio vaccination team and their police escort were attacked on Friday by a mob during a vaccination drive in a densely populated area of Pakistan's Karachi city. “The polio team went to a house for administering the vaccine drops where the women present called two armed men and they attacked not only the health workers …

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Israeli military kills four doctors in raid on northern Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital, eyewitnesses say
2 weeks, 3 days ago

Israeli military kills four doctors in raid on northern Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital, eyewitnesses say

CNN  

CNN — Four doctors were killed at Kamal Adwan Hospital in besieged northern Gaza on Friday, after Israeli forces stormed the compound, killing and injuring dozens of people in surrounding areas, eyewitnesses told CNN. “The situation is catastrophic in northern Gaza, particularly in the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital.” Members of an Indonesian medical delegation – the only team performing …

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Amid low state-wide acceptance, tribal districts of Odisha lead in male sterilisation
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Amid low state-wide acceptance, tribal districts of Odisha lead in male sterilisation

New Indian Express  

BHUBANESWAR: Amid low acceptance for vasectomy as an alternative mode of family planning in Odisha, tribal districts have led the way in terms of male sterilisation adoption as compared to more developed and literate coastal districts. Official sources said, districts like Koraput, Rayagada and Sundargarh emerged frontrunners in male sterilisation services in the state while Khurda, Cuttack, Ganjam and Balasore …

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Polio outbreak in Pakistan: This year’s tally at 50, new case from area where gunmen targeted health workers
1 month ago

Polio outbreak in Pakistan: This year’s tally at 50, new case from area where gunmen targeted health workers

Firstpost  

Pakistan has reported its 50th polio case of the year. AP Pakistan detected one more polio case in the restive northwest bordering Afghanistan, raising the country’s tally of the infectious disease to 50 cases this year, officials said Wednesday. The latest case was detected in Tank, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where militants often target polio workers and police …

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Healthcare at your doorstep
1 month ago

Healthcare at your doorstep

New Indian Express  

CHHATTISGARH: The Janjgir-Champa district administrat ion considers health as a fundamental right of every citizen, consequent ly, giving access to improved healthcare to everyone has become a wholehearted commitment. The campaign, relied upon govt health staff, including doctors, mitanins, rural health officers, and healthcare workers equipped with medical kits. “The goal was to screen 11.29 lakh residents of the district …

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Pakistan begins new nationwide polio vaccination campaign after surge in new cases
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Pakistan begins new nationwide polio vaccination campaign after surge in new cases

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Pakistan began a nationwide vaccination …

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Columbia-Developed Competency Test for Community Health Workers to Be Implemented in India
2 months ago

Columbia-Developed Competency Test for Community Health Workers to Be Implemented in India

Hindustan Times  

A pioneering competency test designed to formalise the role of Community Health Workers (CHWs) in India has been developed by Janhavi Mallaiah, program director at Columbia University's InTOuCH programme. The test, named 'SLAT' (Stroke Literacy Assessment Test), will assess the knowledge and skills of frontline health workers in Maharashtra, a country with a significant burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). The …

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AI Startups Stepping Up to Solve India's Healthcare Crisis
2 months ago

AI Startups Stepping Up to Solve India's Healthcare Crisis

Live Mint  

AI startups in India are working to solve the country's healthcare problems by developing innovative solutions such as contactless patient monitoring systems and remote monitoring platforms. These startups are leveraging technology to address the shortage of healthcare professionals and improve patient care. By using AI and other cutting-edge technologies, these startups are helping to improve the quality of healthcare in …

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Nearly 100 U.S. Health Workers Who Served In Gaza Demand Arms Embargo To Israel
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Nearly 100 U.S. Health Workers Who Served In Gaza Demand Arms Embargo To Israel

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Almost 100 American health care workers who have served in Gaza are demanding a U.S. arms embargo on Israel until a permanent cease-fire is reached — the latest plea for the Biden administration to end its unconditional support for Israel ahead of the anniversary of the country’s siege on the Palestinian territory. Almost a thousand of those …

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Nursing aides plagued by PTSD after ‘nightmare’ COVID conditions, with little help
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Nursing aides plagued by PTSD after ‘nightmare’ COVID conditions, with little help

NPR  

Nursing aides plagued by PTSD after ‘nightmare’ COVID conditions, with little help toggle caption Amy Maxmen/KFF Health News One evening in May, nursing assistant Debra Ragoonanan’s vision blurred during her shift at a state-run Massachusetts veterans home. “How am I supposed to move forward?” toggle caption Amy Maxmen/KFF Health News COVID killed more than 3,600 U.S. health care workers in …

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Photographer's fight to improve mental health services in Victoria
3 months, 1 week ago

Photographer's fight to improve mental health services in Victoria

ABC  

An image created by Christine, called Grounded Hopes. "A lot of people who have mental health conditions, we're marginalised in society," Christine says. Bendigo Health says Jenette and Christine's experiences do not reflect the usual standard of care provided by its mental health and wellbeing services. "It's just simply not good enough what people have to experience within the public …

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Army to guard hospital in Italy after a spate of attacks on medical staff across the country
3 months, 1 week ago

Army to guard hospital in Italy after a spate of attacks on medical staff across the country

LA Times  

The Italian army will start guarding medical staff at a hospital in the southern Calabria region beginning Monday after a string of violent attacks on doctors and nurses by enraged patients and relatives across Italy, according to local media reports. Recent attacks on health workers have been particularly frequent in southern Italy, prompting the doctors’ national guild to ask for …

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Israel-Hamas war latest: Jenin refugee camp is left to deal with the aftermath of an Israeli raid
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Israel-Hamas war latest: Jenin refugee camp is left to deal with the aftermath of an Israeli raid

The Independent  

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UN begins polio vaccination in Gaza
3 months, 3 weeks ago

UN begins polio vaccination in Gaza

China Daily  

A man holds a bottle of polio vaccine at a hospital in Gaza on Saturday. HANI ALSHAER/GETTY IMAGES The United Nations, in collaboration with Palestinian health authorities, began to vaccinate 640,000 children in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, with Israel and Hamas agreeing to brief pauses in the conflict to allow the vaccination campaign. Rik Peeperkorn, head of the World …

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Why disconnecting from work is important for mental well being
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Why disconnecting from work is important for mental well being

The Hindu  

It used to be a point of pride: working round the clock, at all hours and being known in the family as the workaholic. It’s a mental health issue, frankly, as well, for people to be able to disconnect from their work and connect with their family and their life.” But how seriously is work impacting mental health taken in …

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WHO says its deal with Israel will allow limited pauses in Gaza fighting for polio vaccinations
3 months, 3 weeks ago

WHO says its deal with Israel will allow limited pauses in Gaza fighting for polio vaccinations

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. World Health Organization said Thursday that it has reached an agreement with Israel for limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for polio vaccinations for hundreds of thousands of children after a baby contracted the first confirmed case in 25 years in the Palestinian territory. The vaccination campaign will start Sunday in central Gaza, …

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Union Health Ministry assures all possible efforts to ensure safety of doctors, requests them to join duties
4 months ago

Union Health Ministry assures all possible efforts to ensure safety of doctors, requests them to join duties

Op India  

As junior doctors across the country continue their protest demanding security after Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital rape and murder case, the union health ministry today appealed them to return to work. The representatives of the Federation of Resident Doctors Association, Indian Medical Association and Resident Doctors’ Associations of Governmental Medical Colleges & Hospitals of Delhi met the Union Ministry of …

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Nationwide strike by Indian doctors over Kolkata medic’s rape, murder
4 months ago

Nationwide strike by Indian doctors over Kolkata medic’s rape, murder

Al Jazeera  

Hospitals hit by 24-hour shutdown as protests demanding protection for health workers and condemning violence swell. Medical strike across India: Staff protest against rape and murder of trainee Hundreds of thousands of Indian health workers and their supporters have launched a nationwide strike to protest against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor last week at a government hospital …

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Kolkata, India: Doctors strike to protest rape, murder of trainee medic in RG Kar Medical College and Hospital
4 months, 1 week ago

Kolkata, India: Doctors strike to protest rape, murder of trainee medic in RG Kar Medical College and Hospital

CNN  

New Delhi CNN — Thousands of doctors have gone on strike across India to demand better protection for health workers after a trainee medic was raped and murdered in eastern West Bengal state. The resident doctor’s body was found last Friday with multiple injuries and signs of sexual assault in a seminar hall at the RG Kar Medical College and …

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Kerala landslides: Autopsy count mounts as health workers battle to save survivors
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Kerala landslides: Autopsy count mounts as health workers battle to save survivors

Deccan Chronicle  

Doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, are working round the clock in Kerala's landslide-affected Wayanad, grappling with a distressing situation that involves providing critical care to severely injured survivors and performing autopsies on the remains of victims claimed by the catastrophic event. We have handed over 154 bodies to the district administration," said State Health Minister Veena George.She explained that …

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Why are global health organisations not speaking up on genocide in Gaza?
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Why are global health organisations not speaking up on genocide in Gaza?

Al Jazeera  

Given Israel’s systematic attacks on the medical sector and workers in Gaza, what is happening there is very much a global health issue. Doctors, when economically or otherwise professionally incentivised, are an “integral part of colonization, of domination, of exploitation”, he wrote, and “we must not be surprised to find that doctors and professors of medicine are leaders of colonialist …

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Health workers undergo training in skill enhancement in Tiruchi
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Health workers undergo training in skill enhancement in Tiruchi

The Hindu  

Urban Public Health Centre workers from Tiruchi city were given an orientation on the use of the Rapid Immunisation Skill Enhancement App of the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare here on Thursday. Public Health Workers from 18 UPHCs were briefed on the functions of the various modules. “The App was initially made for the efficient operation of public …

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These L.A. health teams go door to door with a question: What do you need?
5 months, 1 week ago

These L.A. health teams go door to door with a question: What do you need?

LA Times  

On a sweltering morning in Watts, community health worker Elizabeth Calvillo rapped on a shut gate with her pen, hoping the sound would carry over the rumble of an airplane. Ashley Jackson works in the Pacoima office of Providence’s Community Public Health Team, where “successes” are listed on a poster. L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said the pilot …

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Will Pakistan ever be able to eradicate polio?
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Will Pakistan ever be able to eradicate polio?

Al Jazeera  

Six poliovirus cases have been reported so far this year along with numerous positive samples. Health workers have begun a campaign to vaccinate 9.5 million children against polio in 41 districts in Pakistan this week. Pakistan’s PM Shehbaz Sharif, however, said the government “remains steadfast” in its aim to eradicate polio after a meeting with American billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates …

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