The Ministry of Health (MoH) is studying the implementation of mental health programmes in primary health clinics across the country, an official has told Khaleej Times.
According to Dr Muna Al Kuwari, Director of Central Primary Health in the MoH, primary health services in the country will be expanded to include mental health services to both [...]
CLOSE TO to half a million Jamaicans with health insurance can still expect to pay indirectly for services and items in public health facilities from which user fees are to be removed come Tuesday.
Speaking with The Gleaner yesterday Health Insurance, Minister of Health Rudyard Spencer says while insured persons would not be required to [...]
March 2 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. called for an end to
violence in the Middle East and the United Nations Security
Council called an emergency meeting after 46 Palestinians and
two Israeli soldiers were killed in clashes in the Gaza Strip.
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March 1 (Bloomberg) — Forty-six Palestinians and two
Israeli soldiers were killed in the deadliest clashes in years in
the Gaza Strip, throwing into question the future of peace talks
just days before U.S. Secretary Condoleezza Rice is due to visit.
[...]
March 1 (Bloomberg) — Israeli air and ground strikes
killed 32 Palestinians, five of them children, in the Hamas-
controlled Gaza Strip as militants continued cross-border
rocket attacks.
The death toll for the day was [...]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA): Medical facilities and services throughout Guyana have been given a boost with the arrival of 14 Cuban medical practitioners most of whom will serve at the Leonora Centre in Region Three. This facility is expected to open within the next three weeks. Minister within the Ministry of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran on [...]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA): Guyana%26rsquo;s aggressive response to HIV/AIDS has seen the epidemic stabilising over the past three years as it pursues the goal of having no child born with HIV. Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy made this assertion while speaking at the presentation of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) Workshop held [...]
GRAND TURK, Turks and Caicos Islands: Following reports of an outbreak of low-pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza %26ldquo;bird flu%26rdquo; virus at live-bird market sites in the Dominican Republic, the Ministry of Health and Human Services in the Turks and Caicos Islands has imposed a ban on the importation of poultry and poultry products from the Dominican [...]
By Cathy Buffonge BRADES, Montserrat: %26ldquo;Younger women are doing it, older women need to do it too %26hellip; if you are between 45 and 65, come have a Pap smear%26rdquo;, proclaims a lively jingle on Radio Montserrat, while posters and TV promos give the same message. What is this all about? A Pap smear is [...]
Asuma Mujawase, another victim, who was also airlifted to Kigali, said the death toll was sure to rise.”I am sure very many people are going to die,” she said, adding that the hospital near the quake’s center was full and “people were scattered in the hospital compound.”In Rwanda, 34 people were killed and 231 wounded, [...]
