The Minister of Health in Congo-Brazaville, Gilbert Mokoki, relaunched on Monday the free cesarean section and other major obstetric interventions program with the delivery of more than 2,000 operating kits intended for public health structures in the country. According to the director of health care and services Germain Monabeka, the …
Read More »Zambia limits worship time to two hours to curb cholera epidemic
Zambian authorities have ordered churches to limit the duration of worship to two hours as part of measures to curb the spread of the cholera epidemic wreaking havoc in the country. No sale of perishable and ready-to-eat foods in all churches, Ndiwa Mutelo, a senior official in charge of religious …
Read More »Zambia expects cholera vaccines as death toll rises
Zambia expects to receive one million cholera vaccine doses from the World Health Organisation amid an outbreak that has killed 249 people since last October. Roma Chilengi, the health adviser to President Hakainde Hichilema, said the doses will be deployed to the most at risk regions and are due to …
Read More »Uganda announces destruction of expired Covid vaccines worth $7 million
More than 5.6 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines bought on loan by the Ugandan government have expired, an audit report has said. The vaccines are valued at 28.1bn Ugandan shillings ($7.3m; £5.8m) and were purchased using a World Bank loan. Authorities say the expired vaccines will be withdrawn from health …
Read More »Rwandan authorities recall Kenyan drug over safety concerns
Health authorities in Rwanda have recalled batches of antifungal tablets made in Kenya over safety concerns, local media reported. In a statement, the Rwanda Food and Drugs Authority (RFDA) instructed importers to return all batches of 200mg Fluconazole tablets manufactured by Univeral Corporation, a Kenyan company. It also ordered all …
Read More »Seventy-year-old Ugandan woman gives birth to twins
A 70-year-old woman has given birth to twins following in vitro fertilization (ivf) treatment, a hospital in Uganda has said. Safina Namukwaya delivered a boy and a girl via caesarean at a fertility centre in the capital, Kampala. Ms Namukwaya, who is is one of the oldest women to give …
Read More »Israeli army demands evacuation of Indonesian hospital in Gaza
The Israeli army has called for the evacuation of the Indonesian hospital in the northern Gaza Strip within four hours, a Palestinian Ministry of Health official said. The Israeli army wants to enter the hospital for “military operations” and is therefore demanding its evacuation within four hours, Ministry of Health …
Read More »Uganda investigates unidentified illness after 12 deaths
Ugandan health authorities are investigating an unidentified disease outbreak that has killed at least 12 people in a span of two weeks in Kyotera district in the central region. Affected patients had rashes on the skin which kept widening, before dying in a matter of days. Some had swollen limbs. …
Read More »700,000 people commit suicide every year
700,000 people commit suicide every year, not counting the many attempted suicides worldwide, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) report. “The scourge is so imminent in the country right now due to the difficult economic challenges facing the country,” according to some Nigerians. “Men commit suicide partly because they …
Read More »Ghana’s renal unit reopens after five-month closure
A major renal unit at Ghana’s publicly funded Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) in the capital, Accra, has reopened after a five-month closure. The country’s largest treatment centre for patients suffering kidney disease shut because of budgetary issues and it was unable to pay for the everyday needs of those needing …
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