Private clinics are wooing customers by offering short-notice consultations. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA The Guardian By Sarah Marsh and Denis Campbell Signs that NHS’s inability to offer prompt care is creating surge in people resorting to private care Patients are paying up to £550 an hour to see private GPs amid frustration at the delays many

Jessica Tincopa and her husband, Rob Tran, stand for a portrait in Orange, Calif., Friday, May 5, 2023. Tincopa may leave the photography business she spent 14 years building for one reason: to find coverage for fertility treatment. After six miscarriages, Tincopa and her husband started saving for in vitro fertilization, which can cost well

File- A relative adjusts the oxygen mask of a tuberculosis patient at a TB hospital on World Tuberculosis Day in Hyderabad, India. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A., File) By The Associated Press Top U.N. officials, health industry leaders and activists demanded Monday that the world invest more to develop new vaccines and tackle a surge in

A woman washes mine dust in search of gold. Ethiopia’s nascent gold mining sector may be breeding rights violations after a lobby found workers were unprotected from potential health hazards By The East African Ethiopia’s nascent gold mining sector may be breeding rights violations after a lobby found workers were unprotected from potential health hazards.

By Voice of America Qamar Ali Haji has been using skin-lightening products for four years. Initially she liked the change in her appearance but now the exposure to the chemicals in the products is taking a toll. She says she regrets it. “I can’t sit too long in the school, I cannot bear the heat,

In such an overstretched service, it’s hard to feel like you are making any difference at all (Picture: Eloise Hart) Metro By Eloise Hart When a man in his twenties came into the Covid-19 ward, I knew he was scared. I reassured him that he was young and strong, so he was likely to be

A Covid 19 testing centre in Leytonstone, east London (File picture) / PA Wire Evening Standard By Daniel Keane Somali families living in east London experienced “acutely high” infection and death rates during the Covid pandemic, a new study has found. Researchers found that a late lockdown and “community-insensitive” public health approach contributed a higher

File Photo Somali Times/Somalia flag By World Health Organization The WHO Country Office in Somalia recently deployed an emergency medical team (EMT) in Mogadishu to support trauma care and also help build local capacities of doctors, nurses and paramedics s in trauma care services, especially in the areas of reconstructive surgery, nursing management of traumatic

By Anadolu Agency European countries are still experiencing high incidence of medicine shortages, with deteriorating burdensome impact on patients, according to a recent survey. The Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union (PGEU) conducted a survey with pharmacies in 29 countries, including EU members, Turkey, Norway, and North Macedonia. The survey results showed that the medicine

Overworked Nurse Photo supplied by The African Exponent The African Exponent By Steady Dzinduwa There has been an alarming trend of African healthcare workers being exploited in bonded labor schemes in the UK. This development has been described as modern-day slavery. Nurses and care workers from Zimbabwe and other African countries are deceived into moving