Sudan
Aiming to ease health care delivery during the rainy season, UNICEF handed over four motorboats to Upper Nile State Ministry of Health officials today in Malakal.
"UNICEF donated these boats for vaccination campaign, transporting health workers to villages along the river, and for patients who need to be taken to Malakal (from neighbouring counties) for further health treatment," said UNICEF Child Protection Officer Emmanuel RetChol.
Khartoum State Minister of Environment and Water, Yousif Tebn, has denied the existence of contaminated water in state's water network. In a report he submitted to Khartoum state Council of Ministers Wednesday, Tebn said that the ministry provides technical materials and laboratory test every hour.
According to Radio Miraya the Minister of health assured that the hospitals did not record any case of water related infections.
One month fistula treatment campaign started in Lakes State on Wednesday, with the aim of reducing fistula cases in southern Sudan. The director general of the State Ministry of Health, Achut Achut, told Radio Miraya that four women have been successfully operated in Rumbek hospital.
A medical convoy of 20 Sudanese physician provided treatment services for two days in Dar As-Salam Camp in North Darfur. More than 800 citizens benefited from the services and they performed seven successful surgeries at the local hospital, which was built for the state by the Arab League.
The emergency ward of Al Shaba children hospital in Juba has been opened after eight months of renovation. The executive director of the hospital said the renovation, which was supported by Africa Union, cost US$16,000. Central Equatoria State minister of Health, Emmanuel Ija Baya, hailed the AU for renovating the ward but said other wards in the hospital are in bad condition.
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Their request seemed simple enough: the patient and his wife, both in their 70s, wanted a copy of what I’d written in their medical file. During their visit, I had watched them refer to a well-thumbed collection of doctors’ notes and medication lists, so when they asked for a copy of my note just before leaving, I assumed it would simply be added to the others
HIV/AIDS
Scientists have discovered three previously unknown human antibodies that neutralize HIV, two of which target a broad range of HIV strains.
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