Earlier Bed Delivery Could Have Halved Sierra Leone Ebola Outbreak
Supplying beds for Ebola patients to health facilities in Sierra Leone saved tens of thousands of lives by isolating patients, but providing them just one month earlier could have halved the number of reported cases, researchers said on Monday. The delivery of nearly 3,000 beds by Britain, Sierra Leone and aid agencies between September 2014 […]
A British Nurse Who Contracted Ebola In Africa Last Year Has Been Hospitalised Again: Placed On Isolation
A British nurse who contracted Ebola is in a ‘serious condition’ in hospital today after falling ill with the deadly virus for a second time – ten days after she met Samantha Cameron in Downing Street. Pauline Cafferkey, 39, was flown from Glasgow back to the Royal Free Hospital in north London by the RAF […]
Mauritius’ Mental Health Care Act to Be Reviewed to Better Address Mental Health Issues
“The Mental Health Care Act will be amended with a view of better addressing mental health issues, identifying gaps and difficulties as well as preventing any form of abuse against patients suffering from mental disorders.” The Minister of Health and Quality of Life, Mr Anil Gayan, made this announcement, today at the Brown Sequard Mental […]
Ebola Hits Nigeria Again, 1 Dead, 10 Quarantined
An Ebola scare has been reported in southern Nigeria, a year after the country was declared free of the virus, with a man reportedly dead shortly after being admitted to hospital in Calabar, Cross Rivers State. At least 10 people have been quarantined at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, after coming into contact with […]
Tanzania Green Beer Cuts Tanzanian Brewery’s Costs And Carbon Emissions
Green beer may not sound too appealing, but in Mwanza, it’s going down a treat. A locally produced “greener” brew not only slakes thirst but is reducing the carbon footprint of the country’s second largest city. Tanzania Breweries Limited is tapping biomass energy to produce more sustainable beer while cutting its fuel costs. “We have […]
Baby, Maternal Deaths Increase In Sierra Leone On Ebola Fear
Maternal and newborn deaths in Sierra Leone have soared since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa as fear of being infected and mistrust of health workers deter pregnant women from giving birth in health facilities, researchers said on Tuesday. Deaths of women during or just after childbirth rose by almost a third and those of […]
African Civil Society Under Threat: Mary Robinson
The decline of human rights on average across Africa is worrying Mary Robinson, the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and now a special envoy on climate change for the UN Secretary-General. Discussing this year’s Ibrahim Index of African Governance, she also underlined the need for more data on climate change. She spoke […]
Mugabe Will Be Dead In 79 Days
President Robert Mugabe is exiting human life in 79 days’ time, popular Malawian prophet, Austin Liabunya, has insisted.Barely 9 months after he made his controversial prediction, the preacher has expressed no regret saying Mugabe will die by the 31st December this year. He made these utterances at the new year during a cross over service […]
14 Elephants Poisoned In Zimbabwe
Fourteen elephants were poisoned by cyanide in Zimbabwe in three separate incidents, two years after poachers killed more than 200 elephants by poisoning, Zimbabwe’s National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority said Tuesday. Three elephants were killed in Matusadona National Park in the Kariba area in northern Zimbabwe and 11 more pachyderms were found dead in […]
Better Off Riding A Wheelbarrow To Hospital Than Waiting For Ambulance In South Africa
Either walk 30km to the nearest hospital or be loaded and pushed in a wheelbarrow – because the ambulance is likely not to come until it’s too late. These are some of the shocking findings made by the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) after it investigated access to emergency medical services in the Eastern Cape. […]
