Syria’s future under threat from acute funding shortages
04 november 2025 - 19:01:29Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Hopes for a peaceful future in post-war Syria are at risk as funding for basic services [...] Full text...
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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Hopes for a peaceful future in post-war Syria are at risk as funding for basic services [...] Full text...
Gaza: Guterres urges probe into killings at food distribution sites
02 june 2025 - 21:55:17Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General has condemned the reported killing and injury of Palestinians seeking food aid in [...] Full text...
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Gaza crisis: Lack of fuel threatens critical humanitarian services
15 january 2025 - 08:26:25Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - Critical water, sanitation and hygiene facilities and activities are at risk of grinding to a [...] Full text...
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Millions of Yemenis will bear the brunt of attacks on critical civilian infrastructure
02 january 2025 - 09:28:28Sana’a, Yemen (PANA) - Some 59 organisations operating in Yemen have voiced concern over escalation of war on civilians.International and [...] Full text...
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Israel/Gaza war: WHO concerned about escalating health crisis in West Bank
15 june 2024 - 08:12:40Cairo, Egypt (PANA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) remains concerned about the escalating health crisis in the occupied Palestinian [...] Full text...
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Gaza war: Underweight babies, heavy fighting and a hospital reopening
15 may 2024 - 17:43:20Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Amid some of the fiercest reported fighting in Gaza yet, UN humanitarians on Wednesday repeated warnings [...] Full text...
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Gaza war: Guterres deplores Rafah escalation
14 may 2024 - 18:56:46New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guteres is appalled by the escalation of Israeli military activity in and [...] Full text...
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Guterres reiterates appeal for end to Gaza war
10 may 2024 - 15:53:33Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - With the situation in Rafah “on a knife’s edge”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres appealed again on [...] Full text...
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Gaza war: Patients in Rafah ‘afraid to seek services’, WHO reports
08 may 2024 - 06:47:52Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has taken “crucial steps” in the event of a large-scale Israeli [...] Full text...
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Targeting Rafah could lead to slaughter, warns UN aid agency
04 may 2024 - 07:25:13Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - An Israeli military operation in Rafah “could lead to a slaughter” and cripple lifesaving humanitarian work [...] Full text...
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Gaza war: Mass graves in Gaza show victims’ hands were tied, says UN rights office
23 april 2024 - 13:34:05Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Disturbing reports continue to emerge about mass graves in Gaza in which Palestinian victims were reportedly stripped [...] Full text...
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Libya's health minister inaugurates dialysis centre in Janzour, west of Tripoli
06 april 2024 - 13:51:14Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Ramadan Boujnah, deputy prime minister and acting minister of Health in the government of national unity, [...] Full text...
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Gaza war: Rights experts condemn wholesale destruction, killing at Al-Shifa Hospital
04 april 2024 - 05:37:09Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Two experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council have joined the growing international condemnation over the [...] Full text...
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Gaza war: Aid worker killings prompt temporary halt to UN operations after dark
04 april 2024 - 05:30:57New York, US (PANA) - UN humanitarians in Gaza have suspended operations at night for at least 48 hours in response to [...] Full text...
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Israel-Gaza crisis: 'High-risk mission' delivers fuel to Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza
24 january 2024 - 06:00:06Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) and partners have delivered 19,000 litres of fuel to Al-Shifa hospital [...] Full text...
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Gaza crisis: another hospital facing dire shortages, warns WHO
08 january 2024 - 12:57:24Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - On day 93 of the war in Gaza, amid reports of relentless and heavy Israeli bombardment, [...] Full text...
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Israel/Gaza crisis: Everyone is hungry in Gaza now: UN humanitarians
02 january 2024 - 15:05:30Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - UN humanitarians on Tuesday repeated dire concerns for civilians caught up in the war in Gaza. This [...] Full text...
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With Gaza truce on horizon, UN relief teams stand ready to ramp up aid
23 november 2023 - 13:15:17Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Humanitarian agencies preparing to go into Gaza continued to build up stocks of desperately needed aid [...] Full text...
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Israel-Gaza crisis: UN welcomes deal for pause in fighting, hostage-release pact
22 november 2023 - 13:44:15New York, US (PANA) - A deal on Wednesday to release hostages taken during Hamas' attack on Israel has been [...] Full text...
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Israel-Gaza crisis: War and health crisis in Gaza a ‘recipe for epidemics’ warns WHO
21 november 2023 - 05:27:16New York, US (PANA) - The thousands of injuries sustained by civilians across Gaza combined with a burgeoning public health [...] Full text...
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Israel-Gaza crisis: Fuel restrictions curtail Gaza aid efforts amid attacks on UN schools and evacuation plans for Al-Shifa Hospital
19 november 2023 - 06:58:38Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Fuel restrictions are curtailing aid efforts in Gaza, UN agencies said on Saturday. This was as the [...] Full text...
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Gazans struggle for survival; north sealed off
08 november 2023 - 15:22:27Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians still in northern Gaza face unprecedented hardship after being isolated by [...] Full text...
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Israel-Palestine crisis: UN welcomes first medical evacuations from Gaza
01 november 2023 - 12:46:36Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - UN health agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomed Egypt’s decision on Wednesday to accept some of [...] Full text...
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Sudan conflict: Children dying amid healthcare system collapse
20 september 2023 - 06:17:01Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - In war-torn Sudan, more than 1,200 children under-five have died in camps in the space of [...] Full text...
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Sudan conflict: Media forgotten in truce agreement; how journalists are faring in war situation (By Mohamed Osman Adam, PANA correspondent)
29 may 2023 - 12:35:56Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Over 500 journalists have lost their jobs since the outbreak of the fighting in Sudan on [...] Full text...
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Sudan conflict: Warring parties asked to vacate hospitals, medical facilities to alleviate suffering of patients (Feature by Mohamed Osman Adam, PANA Correspondent)
23 may 2023 - 11:47:21Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - This was the last message Abdul- Kareem Gassim, a 60 year-old journalist, posted on his Facebook [...] Full text...
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Sudan: civilians trapped in urban warfare (analysis by Mohamed Osman Adam, PANA correspondent)
18 april 2023 - 19:02:06Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - As fighting between Sudanese rivals continues for the fourth day running, civilians in Khartoum and other [...] Full text...
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Benin allocates more than 125 billion CFA francs to health sector in 2023
06 december 2022 - 19:40:33Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Beninese government plans to spend more than 125 billion CFA francs on health, according to [...] Full text...
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Ethiopian crisis: $40 million in aid relief for victims ‘living on knife-edge'
15 november 2021 - 19:03:19Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - As the humanitarian crisis grows in Ethiopia’s conflict-affected north, the UN announced on Monday that $40 million in funds had been made [...] Full text...
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Mauritius to introduce hepatitis C virus micro-elimination approach for dialysis patients
29 july 2021 - 07:04:47Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian Minister of Health and Wellness, Kailesh Jagutpal, on Wednesday, announced that the micro-elimination [...] Full text...
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Coronavirus: Some 190,000 people inoculated with first dose of vaccine in Mauritius
02 april 2021 - 07:22:43Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian Health and Wellness Minister, Kailesh Jagutpal, on Thursday said that a total of 190,000 [...] Full text...
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Young Rwandan man calls for financial support for kidney transplant
28 june 2020 - 11:12:47Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A young Rwandan man, Jean Claude Muhire, requiring kidney transplant, has called for financial support from [...] Full text...
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Mauritius to develop five-year strategic plan for the health sector
10 june 2020 - 08:11:57Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian Health and Wellness Minister, Dr Kailesh Jagutpal, on Tuesday said that a five-year strategic [...] Full text...
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Lamordé hospital in Niamey to get new pavilion to strengthen the dialysis unit
13 february 2020 - 18:10:59Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The uranium group, made up of the mining company of Air (SOMAIR), the mining company of [...] Full text...
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Cape Verdean government adopts kidney transplant law
18 january 2020 - 18:18:00Praia, Cape Verde (PANA) - Cape Verdean Minister of Health Arlindo do Rosário announced here Saturday a kidney transplant bill [...] Full text...
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Benin to build university hospital reference centre in Abomey-Calavi
12 january 2020 - 13:01:27Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Beninese government says it plans to build a university hospital centre of reference in Abomey-Calavi, [...] Full text...
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Several successful organ transplants recorded in Tunisia in 2019
17 october 2019 - 15:01:43Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian National Center for the Promotion of Organ Transplant has revealed that four heart transplant [...] Full text...
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German pharmaceutical firm sets manufacturing plant in Kenya
10 july 2019 - 12:07:19Athi River, Kenya (PANA) - A German medical products manufacturing company, B Braun Medical Kenya Limited, has set up a [...] Full text...
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Five central hospitals in Zimbabwe receive medical equipment
09 july 2019 - 17:50:20Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe’s Health and Child care minister, Obidiah Moyo, says they have bought equipment for five central [...] Full text...
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Highly specialised clinical campaigns conducted at Botswana hospital
25 june 2019 - 22:04:41Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana’s national referral hospital - Princess Marina Hospital (PMH) - is this week conducting highly specialised [...] Full text...
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Senegal has 800,000 people with kidney failure
14 march 2019 - 20:05:13Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has some 800,000 people with kidney disease, of whom about 20,000 are terminally ill, the [...] Full text...
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Nigerien first lady launches dialysis centre at Niamey hospital
22 january 2019 - 17:46:41Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Niger's First Lady, Dr Malika Issoufou, Sponsor of the Association Nigérienne des dialysés et insuffisants rénnaux [...] Full text...
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Mauritius to debate Human Tissue Bill in Parliament
21 may 2018 - 11:54:06Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - As the Mauritian Parliament prepares to begin the second reading the Human Tissue (Removal, Preservation and [...] Full text...
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Gambia’s main hospital sacks corrupt officials
08 january 2018 - 14:56:49Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The new management of Gambia's biggest hospital, the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital (EFSTH), revealed that [...] Full text...
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Mauritius: Prevalence of diabetes stabilises in Mauritius
13 january 2016 - 12:47:02Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) — Mauritian Health Minister Anil Gayan on Tuesday said that for the first time in 30 years, [...] Full text...
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Rwanda: First ever dialysis centre launched in Rwanda
17 august 2015 - 15:41:15Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's first-ever dialysis centre was officially launched here with the main mission to offer patients with [...] Full text...
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Mauritius: Media dominated by two major events in La Réunion
01 august 2015 - 11:07:58Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Two major events - the 9th Indian Ocean Island Games (IOIG) that opened Friday in the [...] Full text...
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Tanzania: Reproductive Rights centre sues Kenya’s health ministry for blocking legal abortion
29 june 2015 - 13:33:10Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Kenya’s Ministry of Health is undermining women’s constitutional rights and contributing to cases of [...] Full text...
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US: Sierra Leonean Ebola patient dies at US medical facility
17 november 2014 - 19:36:18New York, US (PANA) - A Sierra Leonean medical doctor, Martin Salia, who contracted Ebola, while working in Sierra Leone died [...] Full text...
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Tunisia: Tunisia has highest renal failure cases in Africa
08 april 2014 - 22:44:56Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – The chief of urology service at the University hospital of Sahloul in Sousse, Dr Abdellatif Achour, [...] Full text...
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Mauritius: Around 10,000 people suffer from renal diseases in Mauritius
13 march 2014 - 13:32:02Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Renal diseases affect more and more Mauritians because of diabetes and hypertension, with around 1,000 patients [...] Full text...
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Mauritians hold blood donation sensitisation march
12 december 2013 - 11:14:53Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - A march to sensitise Mauritians to donate blood was held in the capital city of Port-Louis [...] Full text...
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Mauritian students donate blood to meet Increasing demand
21 march 2013 - 13:24:26Nouvelle-France, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Health and Quality of Life Minister Lormus Bundhoo said Thursday that activities to sensitise and [...] Full text...
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SA's disgraced police boss, Selebi, paroled
20 july 2012 - 11:48:38Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa’s disgraced former police commissioner Jackie Selebi, who also served as the President [...] Full text...
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Rwanda to conduct first kidney transplant
13 december 2010 - 18:13:07Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – The King Faycal Hospital, located in the periphery of the Rwandan capital, Kigali, will carry out [...] Full text...
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Report hails Libya's achievements in basic health service provision
05 september 2010 - 19:53:00Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The progress achieved by Libya in the field of health se rvice provision over the last [...] Full text...
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Kidney diseases, a silent threat, says Senegalese doctor
03 december 2009 - 19:46:00Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The head of the Nephrology Department of Aristide Le Dan tec Hospital, in Dakar, Senegal, Professor [...] Full text...
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