When someone falls critically ill, hospitals are expected to provide life-saving care. But in many African countries, intensive care units are rare. Critically ill patients are treated in general ...

Large ships are mostly associated with industrial operations, military activities, or simple travel and leisure. But the pioneering Global Mercy was the first one to be specifically built for becoming ...

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is providing much-needed medical equipment to a severely understaffed and undersupplied hospital in one of Africa’s poorest ...

An anti-migrant group called Operation Dudula is blocking foreigners from public health clinics in South Africa.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's largest hospital and pharmacy chain Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd is planning to set up hospitals in African countries, Chairman Prathap Reddy said on Wednesday. "We ...

CAPE TOWN, July 21 (Reuters) - A surgical team led by Dr Tim Forgan uses the da Vinci Xi robot to assist in removing a cancerous rectal tumour from a female patient at Tygerberg public hospital in ...

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Researchers in South Africa have launched clinical trials for the first vaccine developed entirely in the country.

Hospital wards across Uganda are filling with COVID-19 patients as the country faces an aggressive surge in cases. One of the biggest issues have: a serious shortage of oxygen. Over the last month, ...

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Giuliana Demma, left, and her sister Audrina, right, sew pediatric hospital gowns in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. The sisters have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns ...