healthcare workers
Kogi’s Healthcare Crisis: Workers Call for Urgent Recruitment to Fill Gaps
The Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, MHWUN, in Kogi State has asked Governor Usman Ododo to recruit health workers into the...
Why experts say 2nd vaccine doses should be rolled out now
This is an excerpt from Second Opinion, a weekly roundup of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers every Saturday morning. If you...
As Sask. faces growing COVID-19 cases, Indigenous communities have charted a different path
As cases of COVID-19 have climbed in Saskatchewan in 2021, the case counts among the province’s Indigenous communities have dramatically decreased. Data obtained...
As ICUs fill up, doctors confront grim choice of who gets life-saving care
Hospitals are shifting critically ill patients around, looking for any empty bed. Nurses and doctors are putting in exhaustion-defying amounts of overtime. Some...
Ford to impose Ontario-wide shutdown as 3rd wave of COVID-19 hits hard
With a record number of COVID-19 patients in Ontario’s intensive care units and its highest-ever rate of new cases in schools, multiple sources...
700 families waiting for children’s health services at Toronto hospital as pandemic backlog grows
Just six months after he was born, Ivona Nowak’s son Noah was diagnosed with cancer in his spinal cord. The tumour, though treatable, left the...
Nigeria’s minister of Health says careless doctors are to blame for spread of lassa fever
Nigeria’s minister of Health says careless doctors are to blame for spread of lassa fever Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole has blamed the...
