Medical Aid

Managers Ordered to Keep Hospitals Clean

Pretoria — Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has lashed out at hospital managers for failing to keep their hospitals clean. "How do you find it so easy to work in a dirty hospital, no human being will last in such a hospital,...

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“Midwives’ role key to rural healthcare”

Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad inaugurates ninth Asia-Pacific Midwives’ Conference ‘Though 9.3 lakh nurses, midwives were registered, only 40 per cent of them are active’ Another 3.8 lakh nurses and 1.5 lakh midwives needed...

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Ban on stir on medical college campuses

KOTTAYAM: The government has decided to ban agitations and protests on government medical college hospital campuses in the State, Health Minister P.K. Sreemathy has said. Inaugurating a public meeting, organised against the...

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State: Assistance program overhaul to save $40 million

Overhaul: Aid targets people unable to work due to disabilities BRAD SHANNON; The Olympian | • Published November 19, 2009 State officials say they have overhauled the controversial General Assistance Unemployable program,...

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Nuru International Works to End Terrorism by Eliminating Extreme Poverty – Civilian and Military...

Activism Summary. Nuru International works to end extreme poverty by focusing on empowering people through programs in agriculture, education, and healthcare, as well as water and sanitation. In the Kiswahili language of Kuria,...

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AmeriCares and Boeing Deliver Emergency Relief Supplies to the Philippines

STAMFORD, Conn., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AmeriCares and Boeing today delivered an emergency shipment of medical aid to the Philippines, where thousands of people are still reeling from the devastation caused by...

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Namibia: Chiefs and Cleaners

The Namibian newspaper of November 13 2009 reported two stories that are symbolic of the distinct class society in Namibia. On the front page, there is the story how Government tapped into a non-existent fund to procure N$2,23...

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Sierra Leone: radical £20m scheme to end health emergency

Sierra Leone is expected to unveil a radical new scheme to tackle its spiralling health crisis by offering free health care to pregnant women and children at a conference in London tomorrow. President Ernest Bai Koroma is...

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Medical debut for smart band aid

The smart plaster could be used to monitor patients from afar Clinical trials have begun of a smart plaster - a sensor-studded band aid that wirelessly monitors vital signs. Once stuck to a patient's chest, the band aid...

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Student feature: Rescribing - Recycling unused medicine

Medical student Jessica Wynter-Bee describes how African health centres can benefit from unused UK medicine, in an article first published in Perspectives. Inter Care – Medical Aid for Africa is a UK registered charity which...

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