An outbreak of cholera in northern Cameroon has resulted in more than 1,000 cases and at least 28 deaths since mid-July, according to health authorities. The outbreak has added strain to the healthcare facilities in the area, as a lack of clean water and poor sanitation is making it difficult for health authorities to control […]
Somali Humanitarian crisis is ongoing in Somalia, where drought and massive international funding cuts have left millions of people going hungry. Approximately 6.5 million people in Somalia are facing acute food insecurity, and there has been more than an 80% reduction in funding for the severe acute malnutrition programs, according to humanitarian organizations. This has […]
Africa is likely to become one of the world’s top medical cannabis growers, a group of researchers, scientists and entrepreneurs said on Monday. Jordan Curl, Cultivation and Extraction Specialist at Israeli Cannabis Research and Investment firm ICAN told more than 500 delegates at the CannaTech conference in Cape Town, South Africa. “Africa will become the […]
About 360 people are at potential risk of Ebola after contact with an infected person in eastern Congo yet many of them are out of reach due to clashes and insecurity, the World Health Organization said on Friday (November 22). Dr Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, urged the government and […]
A recent cholera outbreak in the locality of Idabato, in the Bakassi Health Disitrict of the South West region of Cameroon is said to have claimed the lives to two persons and infected many others. According to health officials from the region, the outbreak results from very poor hygienic conditions observed in that part of […]
Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has voiced hope that the Ebola epidemic in his country would be stamped out by the end of the year. “We believe that by the end of the year we will have eradicated the disease entirely,” Tshisekedi said during a visit to Berlin. The epidemic began in August […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday approved a historic vaccine to combat Ebola virus. The drug called, Ervebo and manufactured by MERCK pharmaceuticals had until now been used in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, as an experimental vaccine to the latest outbreak in the country’s east. The global health outfit said there is […]
Senior Doctors have demanded the reinstatement of Junior doctors who were fired by the government following their labour action of not reporting for duty for over 60 days. Speaking to the Health Times, Zimbabwe Senior Hospital Doctors Association said: For the way forward the punitive disciplinary hearings must stop forthwith and those dismissed must have […]
Deputy Minister of Information, Publicity & Broadcasting Services, Dr Energy Mutodi has said that the striking doctors risk being retrenched. He said that once they have been dismissed, they will also be blacklisted so that they are unemployable elsewhere. Posting on Twitter, Mutodi said: Striking doctors can be rest assured that once dismissed there will […]
The Acting President of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association, Dr Peter Magombeyi has described the country’s health system as a silent genocide as several people continue to die in hospitals. He said that scores of patients are dying in public hospitals since there inadequate resources to save their lives. Speaking to Maverick Citizen, Magombeyi said: […]
The national health insurer is at the centre of another scam after questionable hiring through single-sourcing of an integrated revenue management system at a cost of Sh1.4 billion. Just a day after it emerged that Sh35 million of members’ contributions could not be traced, MPs on Thursday heard that top officials at the National Hospital […]
Doctors who have been on industrial action for weeks now have said that they will have a solidarity march this week as the government is not addressing their grievances. The doctors are saying that they are now incapacitated to report for duty as their salaries have been eroded by the soaring inflation. In a statement, […]
The United States on Friday warned its citizens to take extra care when visiting Tanzania amid concerns over Ebola, adding to calls for the East African country to share information about suspected cases of the deadly disease there. U.S. travellers should “exercise increased caution”, the State Department said in an updated travel advisory that cited […]
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has addressed the United Nations General Assembly which he told that Zimbabwe remained committed to ensuring the country’s health sector was up and running. Addressing the 74th United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage in New York, Mnangagwa said that Zimbabwe’s National Development Agenda, the National Health Strategy 2016-2020, […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday said Congo would introduce a second vaccine against Ebola from mid-October, as the country continues to battle the second-worst outbreak of the disease in history. WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said in a statement that the DRC authorities have once again shown leadership and determination to end the outbreak […]
The World Health Organization has accused Tanzania of failing to provide information on suspected cases of Ebola in this East African country at the risk of hindering the fight against the spread of the virus, which has killed more than 2,000 people in the region. In a statement issued on Saturday, WHO said it learned […]
United Nations Special Rapporteur Clement Voule becomes the first independent human rights expert to visit Zimbabwe as he embarks on a 10-day visit this week to assess the human rights situation. The UN official visits the country when there has been an upsurge in cases of abductions of human rights defenders and union leaders by […]
The ongoing yellow fever outbreak in Bauchi State has killed no fewer than 23 persons, infected 169 others and spread to Borno, Kano, Gombe, and Katsina. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Sunday in a situation report of a cluster of the ailment said the nation was responding well to the challenge posed […]
It is time for the health authorities to get cracking on strategies to arrest the scourge and shame of yellow fever outbreak in the country. It has become a reproach to Africa’s most populous nation. According to Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), from the onset of Yellow Fever (YF) outbreak in September 2017 to […]
