Tag: Health and medicine
Health: the pediatric emergency sector in crisis
Pediatric emergency services have been saturated since the end of October. This is partly due to an epidemic of bronchiolitis, this viral respiratory infection which mainly affects children under two…
on Covid frontline, medical students demand better pay
In China, the Covid wave accelerated by the lifting of health restrictions. Hospitals are under pressure. And in this context, medical students are protesting. They want to go on leave…
In eastern DRC, a cholera epidemic is raging
As cases have been rising for several weeks, provincial authorities in North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo declared a cholera outbreak on Wednesday in Nyiragongo territory near the…
with the end of “zero-Covid”, a rush on traditional medicine and peaches in syrup
After the relaxation of the “zero-Covid” policy, Omicron is accelerating its course in China. Faced with the brutal increase in infections in the capital and its region, the traditional pharmacopoeia…
Moroccan-born nonuplets return to Mali this week
The nine one-and-a-half-year-old siblings born in a Moroccan clinic on May 4, 2021 are expected soon in Mali. A discovery alongside their parents from Timbuktu. It was indeed aboutan exceptional…
In Dakar, a forum to remobilize against poliomyelitis in Africa
A forum for the eradication of poliomyelitis was held this Saturday, December 10 in Dakar in order to remobilize all health actors to eradicate the disease, after the commitments already…
a city helpless in the face of toxic waste from its historic foundry
In Rouyn-Noranda, a mining town in Quebec, the Horne copper smelter releases heavy metals into the air. The concentration of arsenic is 33 times higher than the provincial standard, with…
Wearing a mask again targeted by misinformation
As France faces a ninth wave of Covid-19, the government is considering a possible return to the mandatory mask in public transport. A news that provoked an outcry from the…
Covid-19, flu, bronchiolitis … the country faces a “completely unprecedented” situation
The ninth wave of the Covid-19 epidemic is “ still progressing in France, associated with an increase in hospitalizations and deaths, observed Thursday, December 8, the health authorities, while the…
China in the statistical blur after the relaxation of health restrictions linked to Covid-19
Health authorities announced on Wednesday a general relaxation of anti-Covid-19 health measures. Consequences: difficult to have reliable figures on the epidemic. It is no longer possible to collectively test the…