South Sudan’s healthcare system is a critical shape and needs urgent intervention from the government. Recently, there is an outcry from the Director-General of Juba Teaching Hospital that South Sudan’s main referral hospital relies heavily on non-governmental organizations for medical […]
More than three hundred Medicine San Frontiers’ staff in Abyei went on strike on Wednesday on the national social insurance tax cut. An antagonistic strike occurred after staff received a document from the national labor office stipulating that they are […]
Authorities have raised the alarm over a tsetse fly invasion in Turkana County, especially in villages bordering Uganda, Ethiopia and South Sudan. Oropoi, Nawountos and Matakul villages in Turkana West Sub-County face a high risk of trypanosomiasis disease outbreak because […]
The president’s spokesperson, Ateny dismissed the report on Monday by a Ugandan television, NBS Television, that President Kiir tested positive. Though he confirmed that Over 20 employees at the South Sudanese president’s office have tested positive for Covid-19. Ateny, in […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has alerted six African countries to watch out for potential cases of Ebola after it emerged in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Guinea. The DRC declared the emergence of Ebola on February 7 while […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved two versions of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, clearing the way for the vaccines to be shipped to African countries through the Covax scheme. Covax is a global initiative in which […]
East Africa will receive close to 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from the Covax Facility, a global initiative aimed at equitable access to the highly sought after vaccines. In an indicative vaccine allocation plan released last week, the Gavi-run […]
Using patient data, artificial intelligence can make a 90 percent accurate assessment of whether a person will die from COVID-19 or not, according to new research at the University of Copenhagen. Body mass index (BMI), gender and high blood pressure […]
Kenya joined other countries globally in observing the World Cancer day Thursday, with the unveiling of statistics of on how the disease has affected people and strained their livelihood in seeking treatment.
The health workers’ strike in the country will continue after key players in the dialogue failed to show up in a meeting convened by Labour Cabinet Secretary Simon Chelugui on January 25, 2021. The CS held a meeting with officials from […]
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