NEW DELHI: Techies at a development center of United States software giant Microsoft in the Eastern Indian city of Hyderabad have developed spectacles which could possibly help the blind navigate. The hi-tech glasses, named ‘Kinectacles’ is among 60 innovations designed by techies in India and prototypes of which are show-cased by Microsoft at its ‘Garage [...]
NEW DELHI: In a bizarre incident, a 14-year-old girl, was raped by a class teacher who then ordered the school cook to abort the teenager’s 10-week old pregnancy. The girl has been admitted to hospital for severe bleeding and is now in critical condition. The incident was reported in a school in Unnao, near Lucknow, [...]
SANA’A: Although the government is unwilling to admit that AIDS is a social and health issue that Yemen needs to deal with, many officials are still reluctant to speak of the deadly infectious disease as much stigma is attached to the condition. However, Doctor Abdel-Mageed Kulaib who runs a private hospital in Aden, told Bikyamasr.com [...]
NAIROBI: The advancement of health care technology would better place Kenya by bridging the existing gap in health care services, the World Bank said. Khama Rogo, World Bank Lead Health Specialist commented stating that better technological advancements would reduce doctor and patient contact. “Technology has now made it possible for people to interact without seeing [...]
The International Red Cross (ICHR) has said that thousands of people in South Sudan have been displaced as a result of the ongoing violence between the country and its northern neighbor Sudan. Since the beginning of the year, the ICRC has stepped up its efforts to respond to mounting humanitarian needs in South Sudan. In [...]
NEW DELHI: At least 35 children have died in a fortnight at a top hospital in Jammu and Kashmir, forcing the provincial government to order an inquiry. The children died at the GP Pant Hospital reportedly of encephalitis and R S Chib, Kashmir’s Minister for Medical Education said, blaming doctors at this stage would be [...]
New Delhi: Delhi is the capital of India is old hat. The brutal gang-rape of a middle aged woman in a hospital toilet, a public garden and her subsequent murder back at the same hospital is only reinforcing the image of Delhi, as the sadist capital of sex crimes. Police say they have arrested three [...]
JAIPUR: It’s not very often that man lives to blow the candles off his 100th birthday cake. This former army man, a World War II veteran, not only has done that, but also gifted a village with a new hospital. For Rao Kabool Singh, it was indeed a proud moment as his grandsons, Krishan and [...]
NEW DELHI: More than half of the pregnant and lactating women in the South Indian State of Kerala, lack both nutrition and support from the anganwadis, a government institution meant to provide precisely that. A survey has revealed that anganwadis, local centers meant to give nutritional and healthcare support to infants, pregnant women and lactating [...]
CAIRO: A number of Egyptian medical associations and human rights organizations issued a joint statement on Monday condemning reports on the mobile medical convoy for circumcision of girls in Minya governorate, organized by the Muslim Brotherhood`s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP). They expressed their shock from the attempts to tamper with guarantees of the “bodily [...]
New Delhi: Stranded in Saudi Arabia for days without required documentation, seven Indian nurses were rescued by the Indian Embassy in the Kingdom, officials said. Efforts are now on at war-footing to repatriate them. Four of the seven nurses, who are mostly from the southern Indian state of Kerala, which produces the highest number of [...]
KATHMANDU: A Nepal women’s organization is hoping to create increased protection for pregnant women who were injured in the recent Bagmati River evictions earlier this month in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu. The Women’s Rehabilitation Center (WOREC) said in a statement that pregnant women deserve better protection by the government. It cited a number of women who [...]
KATHMANDU: A slow walk, the leather jacket and the dark skin. The young man sneaks in a “you want smoke, man,” in Kathmandu’s touristy Thamel district. Usually it is only marijuana or hashish, not worth the police’s effort to crack down upon. However, the man doesn’t stop, plopping down on the sidewalk and pushing a [...]
CAIRO: A number of Egyptian human rights groups have submitted a communication to the Attorney General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud against the Muslim Brotherhood`s political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) to investigate the complaints of people in the village of Abu Aziz in the Minya governorate, south of Cairo, over the existence of a [...]
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said on Saturday that the small city-state is in desperate need of more doctors. He called on Singaporean doctors living abroad to return to the country in order to boost health care coverage. Commenting on the shortage of doctors here, the former prime minister said that the [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: In an Asian first, Malaysia will host the Global Women Deliver Conference 2013, the third such event, which focuses on reducing maternal mortality and achieving access to reproductive health for women. The conference is expected to attract 5,000 delegates and generate an estimated RM47.4 million in economic impact. The conference has been held [...]
New Delhi: In a startling revelation a senior health professional has accused that employees of an anti-retro viral therapy (ART) center in the northern Indian state of Punjab were discriminating against HIV positive patients calling them “dirty people”. Speaking to reporters in one of Punjab’s major towns, Jalandar an ART official said that the discrimination [...]
SINGAPORE: Singapore doctors have said that more sex education is needed in the country following a new survey that shows “poor choices” for contraception being used by couples in the country. According to an online survey published by the Singapore Planned Parenthood Association (SPPA), the most common action to prevent pregnancy remains the “withdrawal” method. [...]
NEW DELHI: A 30-something lady in India’s troubled Kashmir state has achieved the rare feat of giving birth to quintuplets in a maternity hospital in the Valley, stretching its facilities to the limit. Doctors and nurses at the Lal Ded hospital in Srinagar were at their wits end to ensure everything went on smoothly for [...]
Goa (INDIA): Once a home to a legendary band sinewy and tough-as-nails guerrilla fighters, the ‘Mawles’, who challenged the might of the mighty Moghul empire in India in the 17th -18th centuries, India’s tropical hot-house, the Konkan region in south western India is all set to export “fighters” of another kind. Kokum, a dark red wild berry [...]
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