Category: Community
Hong Kong culls chickens, suspends imports after H7 bird flu found
HONG KONG – Hong Kong began culling 15,000 chickens on Wednesday and suspended imports of live poultry from mainland China for 21 days after the H7 bird flu strain was discovered in a batch of live chickens from the southern […]
HK hospitals gear up amid bird-flu fears
HONG Kong hospitals raised the alert level yesterday as a woman diagnosed with the deadly H7N9 avian-flu virus was in critical condition. The 68-year-old woman was hospitalised on Thursday, after returning from the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen almost two […]
Injection abuse raises concerns in China
The biting cold has increased the number of patients who have succumbed to the flu. In some Chinese hospitals, those most vulnerable to illness- children and elderly seniors, the overuse of intravenous injections has been raising concerns. Statistics show that […]
Somebody gets ‘stroke’ every hour in UAE
Average age people in UAE get stroke is lower than in other places. Every year 7,000 to 8,000 people in the UAE get a stroke. This means every hour, one person gets a stroke. Fifty per cent of stroke patients […]
New health care strategy to introduce personalised medicine
A comprehensive new health care strategy for the emirate of Abu Dhabi will focus on reducing critical gaps across medical specialities and improving access to health care, senior health officials announced in the capital on Wednesday. One of the hallmarks […]
Medical burden still heavy for Chinese
BEIJING – Medical reform fiscal measures have lined the pockets of hospitals and companies but not done much toward advancing the country’s healthcare system, experts said on Wednesday. Since restructuring measures began in 2009, medical spending has increased by more […]
Hygiene practices should improve to control hepatitis E infection
Contamination Of Water And Food Persist and increases the number of death in India. Several patients are suffering from a rebound of the disease after getting cured from hepatitis E infection. Surujal, who died on Sunday, had tested positive for […]
Municipality destroys three tonnes of unsafe products
Abu Dhabi – Nearly three tonnes of beauty and consumer products that did not meet public health and safety standards were recently confiscated and destroyed, the Abu Dhabi Municipality said. The items were seized during random checks on beauty parlours, […]
South Korea suspends US poultry imports
South Korea has suspended imports of all U.S. poultry and poultry products because of an outbreak of bird flu at a chicken farm in the western state of Oregon. South Korea’s Agriculture Ministry said in a statement Sunday that the […]
Seeing the doctor, overseas: Medical tourism booms in Asia
KUALA LUMPUR – The lines snaking into Bangladesh’s overwhelmed hospitals are often so long, says Nusrat Hussein Kiwan, that they extend into the street outside – too many patients seeking too few quality doctors. So, through a Google search, the […]
