Nigeria’s doctors furious over plans for five years of mandatory service
MPs back new bill for medical graduates, designed to limit brain drain to countries including the UK and US A new bill to impose five...
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Sudan’s doctors turn to social media as health infrastructure crumbles
With hospitals struggling amid the violence, medics are using helplines on messaging platforms to reach those in need Sudanese doctors are turning to social media...
Sudan medical volunteers detained after being seized from ambulance
Mohamed Ahmed and Mohamed Jamal went missing last week while working to reopen a hospital in Bahri Activists in Sudan have expressed outrage after two...
Met police investigate more organ trafficking cases in UK
Modern slavery team reveals further allegations of people being trafficked to London for body parts The Metropolitan police is investigating more cases of organ trafficking...
Avian flu outbreak in the Gambia threatens birds on East Atlantic Flyway
Hundreds of dead birds found in past three weeks as conservationists call for international funding to help stop the disease spreading on migration routes An...
Children face acute risk amid Malawi’s deadliest cholera outbreak
The disease, which has killed 1,500 people since last March, has been aggravated by heavy rains and an overburdened health system Malawi’s cholera outbreak is...
Canadian government urged to test sick patients for herbicide
Patients in New Brunswick with array of symptoms ‘show signs of exposure to glyphosate’, says neurologist A neurologist who believes his patients are suffering from...
Guinea worm disease could be second ever human illness to be eradicated
As cases fall, the condition that once affected millions of people in Africa and Asia could also be the first to be wiped out without...
WHO urges action after cough syrups linked to more than 300 child deaths
Deaths in the Gambia, Indonesia and Uzbekistan due to kidney injury associated with contaminated medicines, the WHO said The World Health Organization has called for...
Health workers in Zimbabwe dismayed as law curbing strikes is passed
Controversial bill to stop industrial action criticised as an already struggling sector fears losing more staff in a damaging brain drain Zimbabwe’s health workers have...
