Nearly 1,000 killed in attacks on health workers in 2014-15Nearly 1,000 people were killed in attacks on health centres worldwide over the past two years, almost 40 per cent of them in Syria, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday in its first report on the issue. The United More… |
W Africa calls for help in controlling Ebola outbreaksHealth workers in West Africa appealed on Wednesday for urgent help in controlling the world's worst Ebola outbreak as the death toll climbed to 932 and Liberia declared a state of emergency. "The government and people of More… |
Health staff in Saudi could take Mers globalThe biggest risk that Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) will become a global epidemic, ironically, may lie with globe-trotting healthcare workers. From Houston to Manila, doctors and nurses are recruited for lucrative postin More… |
Mers could go global via foreign health staff in SaudiThe biggest risk that Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) will become a global epidemic, ironically, may lie with globe-trotting healthcare workers. From Houston to Manila, doctors and nurses are recruited for lucrative postin More… |