Health and medicine articles
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14 PWDs selected for maiden Africa Health Collaborative Medicine Counter Assistant training
Fourteen persons with disabilities have been selected to participate in the maiden Medicine Counter Assistant (MCA) training by the Africa Higher Education Health Collaborative, KNUST in partnership with Mastercard Foundation. Beneficiaries will be served with modules such as Ghanaian sign language for health communication, industrial pharmacy, entrepreneurship among others. The course will include a 3-month […]
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Haiti health system nears collapse as medicine dwindles, gangs attack hospitals and ports stay shut
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — On a recent morning at a hospital in the heart of gang territory in Haiti’s capital, a woman began convulsing before her body went limp as a doctor and two nurses raced to save her. They stuck electrodes to her chest and flipped on an oxygen machine while keeping their eyes []
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Haiti health system nears collapse as medicine dwindles, gangs attack hospitals and ports stay shut
Life-saving medication and equipment is dwindling or altogether absent at hospitals and clinics across Haiti's capital as brutal gangs tighten their grip on Port-au-Prince and beyond