Eric Borgstein News Today

In July 2017, US pop superstar Madonna opened Malawi’s most advanced children’s hospital named after her adoptive daughter Mercy James. Its bright wards feature walls decorated with distinct murals, perhaps a distraction from the silent agonies of its young patients, their guardians and healthcare workers. The 60-bed facility at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) offers

RCSI, St Stephens Green, Dublin RCSI helps build first-ever pan-African training platform for paediatric surgeons The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) has announced details of an innovative partnership with global health charity Kids Operating Room (Kids OR) to create the first pan-African training programme for children’s surgeons. With bases Scotland and Kenya, Kids OR installs dedicated facilities for children’s surgery across low and middle-income countries; the RCSI, meanwhi...