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THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health and Child Care has warned that underfunding of the Health ministry

The maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in  Liberia is alarming. According to the recent Demographic and Health Survey, the MMR of Liberia is 742 per 100,000 live births, one of the world's highest rates of maternal mortality.

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The Diaspora Medical Associations (DMA), the umbrella body of Nigerian medical doctors and dentists practising outside the country, has petitioned the National Assembly over the bill

The warning from economic experts is coming at a time the government is struggling to pay civil servants Kenya is expected to make the bullet payment to retire the 10-year sovereign bond whose issuance in 2014

In the letter, they observed that the migration of professionals is not limited to the medical and dental practitioners alone, saying that the question is why is the medical and dental profession being targeted?

An expert said the new plan is a reflection of government's misplaced priority.

Looking frustrated and depressed, Caroline Madeya, from Ndirande Township in Blantyre, walks lazily out of Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) gates. She was referred to the central hospital on Thursday after an illness, but she was sent back to buy a painkiller diclofenac from a pharmacy. “How can I walk from Ndirande to here only

Some health workers who left for the UK for greener pastures are stranded in Ireland because the Zimbabwean government has stopped issuing clearance letters allowing them to work abroad.



AN undercover Public Service International (PSI) investigation has exposed the state of collapse of the countrys health sector including gross labour rights vi...