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Re - Proud to be a Gambian

Sunday, February 08, 2009

Editor, I have never felt so much proud of being a Gambian citizen as at that moment when our beloved president and his colleagues made that brave...

Hospitals face shortage of vaccines

http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?id=1144000682&cid=4&

Monday, December 01, 2008

For nearly a year, life-saving jabs against snake bites, typhoid and rabies have been out of stock in public hospitals, a situation that could expose...

BURUNDI: Patients suffer as health workers' strike continues

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=81716

Friday, November 28, 2008

BUJUMBURA Friday, November 28, 2008 (IRIN) - A weeklong strike by health workers in Burundi has cut services in key hospitals to a bare minimum, with...

‘Emergency fuel’ stolen

http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=274514

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

TWO supervisors were arrested at Mthathas Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital yesterday morning for stealing diesel from the hospitals emergency...

ZIMBABWE: Health system in crisis

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=81646

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

HARARE Tuesday, November 25, 2008 (IRIN) - Stanley Takaona, deputy president of the Zimbabwe HIV/AIDS Activist Union, has spent the past month...

SWAZILAND: Promise to heal the health service

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=81481

Saturday, November 22, 2008

MBABANE Friday, November 14, 2008 (IRIN) - Moved by the deplorable conditions he found on a tour of Swaziland's hospitals and clinics, Prime Minister...

CONGO: "Irresponsible officials" put patients at risk

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=80697

Saturday, November 22, 2008

BRAZZAVILLE Wednesday, October 01, 2008 (IRIN) - Health officials in some hospitals in Congo are putting patients' lives at risk by engaging in...

SOMALIA: Weekend clashes claim dozens of lives

IRIN http://www.irinnews.org

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Hundreds of families fled their homes in Mogadishu over the weekend as intense fighting between Ethiopian troops and insurgents raged on, claiming...

COTE D'IVOIRE: Clean up campaign for hospitals

IRIN

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Hygiene in most hospitals in Cote d’Ivoire is so low that the ministry of health has launched a nationwide clean-up campaign. “We hope to...

SWAZILAND: Enough is enough, say nurses

IRIN

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Tired of being taken for granted, Swaziland's nurses have opted for industrial action after the government ignored a deadline to improve conditions...