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02/16/2016
On February 15, four hospitals and a school in provinces of Aleppo and Idlib were struck by airstrikes and missile attacks, leaving civilian casualties, including women and children. Two of the four hospitals attacked were supported by SAMS, another one was supported by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), and the fourth hospital attacked was an OBGYN/neonatal clinic.
02/15/2016
More than 100,000 health workers fanned out across Pakistan on Monday, stepping up a drive to eliminate the polio virus this year from one of its last bastions, despite continuing militant threats to vaccination teams.Pakistan accounts for more than 70 percent of the world's cases of polio, a virus that can cause lifelong paralysis and is now endemic in only two countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan
02/15/2016
BEIRUT — Airstrikes hit four hospitals in rebel-held northern Syria on Monday, including child and maternity facilities, international aid officials and witnesses reported. The United Nations said at least 50 people were killed, including children.
02/15/2016
About 50 civilians were killed when missiles hit five medical centers and two schools in rebel-held Syrian towns. The carnage occurred as Russian-backed Syrian troops intensified their push toward the rebel stronghold of Aleppo.
02/12/2016
One of the greatest successes in global health in the past 25 years has been the slashing of childhood mortality rates around the world driven by increased access to vaccines delivered by frontline health workers. Cheap, safe, and effective vaccines like the polio vaccine have saved millions of lives and brought us to the brink of eradicating a deadly disease.
01/31/2016
Wounded people in southeastern Turkey are unable to receive treatment due to a round-the-clock curfew imposed by the government. At least ten civilians injured in clashes have died in the area over the past two weeks because ambulances could not reach them to take them to hospitals.
01/28/2016
Libya's health minister has requested the World Health Organisation (WHO) to declare a state of emergency in the North African country, as 60 to 70 per cent of the country's hospitals have closed, due to lack of funds to purchase medicine.
01/25/2016
The war in Yemen is being fought with total disregard for the rules of war, according to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which has seen three of its health facilities in Yemen come under attack in the last three months.
01/24/2016
'Healthcare is seen as a weapon – you take out a doctor, you take out 10,000 people they can’t care for'
01/22/2016
Almost two dozen people, including civilian rescuers and an ambulance driver from an MSF-affiliated hospital, have reportedly been killed after Saudi-led coalition planes carried out repeated airstrikes on the same target in Sa’ada province, Yemen.