Category: Medical

Death toll from a major ongoing Israeli army air and land assault on the northern West Bank city of Jenin rose to five, in addition to 27 injured, including seven critically.

The Ministry of Health and Jenin hospitals said that three Palestinians were killed in the airstrikes that proceeded the entry of dozens of army vehicles into the Palestinian city. In addition, it said 27 people were injured, including seven critically.

A fourth Palestinian died of injuries sustained earlier, said the Ministry, which later confirmed a fifth death, Palestinian news agency (WAFA) reported.

The army launched a major assault on Jenin after midnight, starting with airstrikes before the military vehicles raided the city, concentrating on its refugee camp.

The army bulldozers destroyed several streets in the camp to prevent the movement of cars and ambulances, said local sources.

Source: Qatar News Agency

Cylinders exploded inside an oxygen depot in the emergency room of Al-Fayhaa Hospital in Basra Governorate.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency

A cholera outbreak in South Africa has killed 43 more people while 197 others were infected, the health ministry said on Monday, urging the public to stick to health precautions to keep the waterborne disease at bay.

While the infection rate has slowed down thanks in part to a national campaign aiming to clamp down on the outbreak, a ministry statement said that improved hygiene conditions could halt a further spread of the disease.

South Africa reported a cholera outbreak last February, when the first fatality linked to the ailment was registered.

Source: Kuwait News Agency

Twelve people were killed and seven others were injured following two passenger buses collided head on in Ganjam district of eastern Indian state of Odisha on Monday, Indian police said.

The Asian News International said quoting Berhampur Superintendent of Police Saravana Vivek that a private bus carrying a marriage party from Khandadeuli village in Berhampur collided head on with another state owned passenger bus killing 12 people and injuring seven others.

The accident took place near Digapahandi on Berhampur-Taptapani road.

The local police engaged in rescue operation soon after the incident and moved the injured to local hospitals. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister of Naveen Patnaik expressed their grief and promised financial support to the injured and the relatives of the dead.

Source: Kuwait News Agency

The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Public Health and Population for the care sector, Dr. Muhammad Al-Mansour and Hajjah province Nabil Al-Jarb, inaugurated on Saturday in the district of Abs in the governorate a campaign to distribute mosquito nets impregnated with the insecticide to prevent malaria, funded by the World Health Organization, at a cost of 44 million and 386 thousand riyals.

At the inauguration, the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health indicated that the campaign implemented by the National Malaria Control Program aims to protect 353 thousand and 200 residents and displaced persons in the districts of Abs, Midi, Haradh and Hiran through the distribution of 176 thousand and 600 mosquito nets.

He stressed the interest of the Ministry of Health in combating malaria, especially in areas with a wide spread and where mosquitoes breed, pointing out that this campaign and the activities that preceded it during the past year in terms of investigating the epidemic, distributing medicines, test strips, and spraying with pesticides with a residual and foggy effect, and others, come in implementation of the directives of the Leader of the Revolution and the head of the Supreme Political Council in strengthening efforts to combat malaria and the delivery of services to citizens in the countryside.

The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health appreciated the efforts of the local authority and the health office in the governorate in facilitating and succeeding the work of the field teams, urging citizens to use mosquito nets optimally and preserve them.

For his part, the Undersecretary of the Governorate praised the efforts of the Ministry of Health in implementing campaigns to eradicate diseases, especially dengue fever and malaria, pointing out that the Abs district is one of the districts most affected by dengue fever and malaria.

He praised the efforts of the leadership of the Health Office and its cadres in enhancing health services in the various districts of the province.

In turn, the director of the health office in the governorate, Dr. Ahmed Al-Kahlani, explained that the response of the Ministry of Health by distributing mosquito nets is a first step that anticipates the malaria epidemic, which spreads more during the winter season. He appreciated the support of the leadership of the Ministry of Health and the province for the efforts of the Health Office in combating epidemics.

While the Director General of Disease Control and Surveillance at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Ehab Al-Saqqaf, and the Director General of the National Malaria Control Program, Dr. Mithaq Al-Sada, stressed the need to enhance community awareness of how to prevent epidemics and vector-borne diseases, pointing to the importance of encouraging community initiatives in combating epidemics by filling swamps and foci which represent a danger to society.

Source: Yemen News Agency

A falling retaining wall resulted in one person’s death and two others’ injuries in Amman on Tuesday. The Public Security Department spokesman said that the civil defense teams freed them from under the rubble of the retaining wall at a construction site and transferred them to the hospital.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday shot dead a young Palestinian and injured nine others in Nablus.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement that Fares Hashash, 19, was shot by Israeli forces during their raid on Balata refugee camp east of Nablus.

Palestine Red Crescent Society stated that nine other young Palestinians were injured during the clashes.

Source: Kuwait News Agency

A cholera outbreak in Lebanon has reached its end nearly three months after the last registered case, the health ministry said on Sunday, citing that surveillance and testing capacity will remain scaled up.

Beirut had previously declared a cholera epidemic among “Syrian refugees” in displacement camps, launching a vigorous campaign in collaboration with the World Health Organization to clamp down on the outbreak.

Source: Kuwait News Agency

Minister of Health Firas Hawari and his Iraqi counterpart Salih al-Hasnawi discussed during a meeting in Baghdad on Sunday prospects for health cooperation between the two countries. Hawari said during a press conference after the meeting that many issues related to health cooperation between the two countries were discussed, adding that the two ministers agreed to boost cooperation for the benefit of the two countries. For his part, al-Hasnawi underscored that his country’s ministry will continue implementing the priorities of a government program on cooperation.

Source: Jordan News Agency

World Tourism Organization (WTO) approved Jordan as a regional center and destination for medical and hospital tourism in the Middle East region, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Makram Qaisi, announced. The announcement was made at the inauguration of the 49th meeting of the UNWTO Regional Commission for the Middle East on Thursday, in the Dead Sea region, in the presence of the organization’ president, Zurab Pololikashvili. During the opening ceremony, Qaisi said Jordan’s achievement is a “certificate of pride and a medal”, in recognition of the Kingdom’s “solid” position on the map of the region and the world, lauding WTO’s efforts. Qaisi reviewed privileges that contributed to Jordan’s accreditation as a regional destination for medical tourism, primarily availability of “highly” qualified workers in the specialties of medicine, nursing and pharmacy. He also noted number of Jordan’s physicians stood at some 30,000 with “distinguished” academic education and training from the “best” universities, hospitals and international centers. Qaisi said the Kingdom has the world’s “highest” rate of physicians per capita, which reached about 26.6 medical doctors per 10,000 people in 2021, and this percentage exceeds the global average of 17.2 doctors per 10,000 individuals. He added that this fact also applies to the nursing staff, as the number of nurses was about 35.2 per 10,000 people in Jordan in 2021, which is “significantly higher” than the global average of 28.7 per 10,000 individuals. Highlighting Jordan’s “distinguished” infrastructure, he noted : “The Kingdom has an advanced medical infrastructure, including hospitals and specialized medical centers, that operate according to the highest international standards and enjoy international accreditation.” Jordan, he said, is “distinguished” by providing “low cost” medical treatment compared to multiple countries in the world, and excels in its quality services, adding that its health insurance systems are run according to the best professional standards and its “strict” means of monitoring seek to maintain level of medical care for tourists.

Source: Jordan News Agency

At least six Palestinians were injured last night, during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Ramallah, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.

The ministry said that, among the six, two were injured, after being shot by live ammunition and the others were injured by rubber bullets.

Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses said that, dozens of Israeli military jeeps and armoured vehicles stormed several neighbourhoods in the city of Ramallah, and located snipers on the roofs of several buildings.

Eyewitnesses said that, the Israeli armed forces surrounded the home of Islam Al-Faroukh, a Palestinian charged with involvement in the double remote bombing attack in Jerusalem in 2022, and imprisoned in an Israeli jail.

They said that, fierce clashes broke out in the area between dozens of Palestinian stone throwers and the Israeli soldiers, who fired teargas, rubber bullets, and live ammunition, to disperse the Palestinian protestors.

West Bank tension has been flaring since early Jan. The Israeli army has been carrying out daily raids on Palestinian towns and cities, in response to attacks carried out by Palestinians.

Source: Nam News Network (NNN)