Healthcare systems in Africa have long faced challenges such as a shortage of doctors, long distances to hospitals, and limited funding. However, the story is changing with the rise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI in African healthcare is driving this transformation, as smart diagnostic tools and digital health platforms […]
Making kombucha at home is easier than it sounds, especially in the summer. This drink is fizzy, a little sour, and full of probiotics. It’s great for staying cool. You can make your own batch at home if you follow the right steps and are patient. What You Need to Start First, you need a […]
With Zimbabwe not recording any COVID 19 related deaths for a whole week earlier this month, many have let their guard down. As a result, few masks are worn in public or are misused, worn as chinstraps. But lack of efficient national testing make it very difficult to realise the extent of the number of […]
Africa is seeing an average fall of 10% in new COVID-19 cases. But situations on the ground vary widely. South Africa has reported the continent’s highest number of cases and deaths, and the world’s seventh highest number of cases. Hospital admissions have started to slow down, but the number of deaths is yet to follow […]
The Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, commended the country’s growing COVID-19 checking out capability as the quantity of demonstrated instances reached 59,648 as of Monday. Ethiopia’s proven COVID-19 cases reached 59,648 after 976 new cases were registered on Monday, the country’s Ministry of Health said. The ministry said in a statement that 15 extra patients […]
The treatment of the new coronavirus with plasma brings of hopevto Egypt where there is an estimated 100,000 cases and more than 5,000 deaths. The 25-year-old land surveyor from Cairo caught the disease in May, on the eve of the Muslim Eid al-Fitr festival, becoming one of the almost 100,000 reported cases in Egypt, where […]
Uganda says it is fast-tracking efforts to put off malaria, which continues to take lives and bleed the country’s financial system extra than any different disease. The sickness is accountable for 30 to 40 percentage of outpatient health facility visits, 15 to 20 percentage of admissions, and 10 percentage of inpatient deaths, normally pregnant moms […]
Africa the Initial Testing Ground for Coronavirus Vaccine Doses The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared that 220 million covid-19 vaccine doses will be tested on the African population. The distribution will be based on nation inhabitant numbers and — front-line health workers and the most vulnerable being given first-batch priority, as confirmed by WHO Africa […]
Between July 21, when Uganda recorded the first COVID-19 death and August 27, the country lost 26 people to COVID-19, out of 2,524 confirmed cases. While COVID-19 kills on its own virility, most of those dying in Uganda could have been saved. Records show that people are dying not because there is lack of treatment […]
South Africas largest union coprising of Education, Health and Allied Workers known as NEHAWU have threatened to go on strike beginning from Monday August 24 According to the union, this is in response to the govts failure to offer adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) against the coronavirus. “everybody is supposed to be taking the line […]
Ebola outbreak in the western section of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is of grave difficulty as instances attain one hundred in much less than a hundred days, the regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Africa said on Friday. In a statement, the UN health enterprise said, the outbreak has in […]
Doctors in a rural Sierra Leone health facility may additionally be accustomed to treating severely unwell infants, but they these days admitted one of the worst instances they had ever seen. An 18-month-old with pallid pores and skin and thinning hair arrived on the wards in the eastern town of Hangha in July suffering from […]
Cases are Spiking One thousand four hundred and ninety-nine (1,499)- the number of confirmed coronavirus cases within the last 24 hours in Morocco, announced Wednesday by the Ministry of Health. The death toll rose to 556, with 23 recorded additions over the last day. Moroccan officials reimposed lock-down and travel restrictions in Tangier Wednesday after […]
Group Tests with Individual Results Wilfred Ndifon, a Rwanda researcher has created an innovative pool testing method that enables multiple people to have their samples tested together for the coronavirus without the need for single tests to accurately determine individual results that come up positive. Leon Mutesa, Professor of human genetics and member of Rwanda […]
The World Health Organization said on Wednesday it was once looking ahead to reviewing scientific trials of a potential coronavirus vaccine developed in Russia. President Vladimir Putin declared Russia the first united states to approve a vaccine on Tuesday even though last stage checking out involving more than 2,000 human beings was only due to […]
The Ministry of Health on Sunday verified every other demise of one COVID-19 patient, bringing the range of humans who have succumbed to the sickness in Uganda to seven. A announcement via the ministry says that 16 new COVID-19 instances have been validated from samples tested on Saturday, bringing the cumulative proven cases of Ugandans […]
COVID-19 Pandemic rundown on the African continent by way of countries, Gambia, Mozambique, Botswana and South Africa, apparently in a state of crisis. The Gambia Declared a state of emergency, by President Adama Barrow, setting a nationwide curfew starting Thursday to last 21 days in light of the 60% rise in cases to nearly 800 […]
The price of hydroxychloroquine skyrockets in sub sahara African countries amid COVID 19. Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, there have been claims that hydroxychloroquine can help in preventing and treatment the deadly virus, and since it’s been a valuable object that is trafficked. Chloroquine is well known in Africa and was one of the […]
Nigeria on Wednesday night time recorded 404 fresh COVID-19 cases. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), which established this on its Twitter handle, said the clean instances had been recorded in 19 states of the federation and Abuja. It added that 5 people died from issues resulting from the virus on Wednesday. Consequently, the […]
