NAIROBI, Kenya — Doctors at Kenya’s public hospitals began a nationwide strike Thursday, accusing the government of failing to implement a raft of promises from a collective bargaining agreement signed in 2017 after a 100-day strike that saw people dying from lack of care. The Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union said they went … Read more
South Korean authorities, increasingly desperate as over 90% of the country’s junior doctors have gone on strike, are looking to the military for help, announcing that they would start deploying military medical personnel to public hospitals to address the crippling shortage of doctors. Twenty military surgeons and 138 public health doctors will be sent to … Read more
Photo: Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg (Getty Images) Last week, it was revealed that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff had been buying up lots of land in Hawaii at an accelerating clip. Benioff, who is worth billions and billions of dollars, has procured approximately $100 million in land parcels throughout the Big Island via a series of nondescript LLCs. … Read more
JERUSALEM — Even after four months of the most grueling and gruesome work of his life, the anesthesiologist wanted to stay at his post at Nasser Hospital last month when the Israeli tanks closed in. But doctors, he fretted, face one of three fates in wartime Gaza: displacement, detention or death. He’d seen Israeli forces … Read more
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Palestinians have begun evacuating the main hospital in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis, according to videos shared by medics on Wednesday. Weeks of heavy fighting had isolated the medical facility and claimed the lives of several people inside it. The war between Israel and Hamas, now in its fifth … Read more
The war between Israel and Hamas, now in its fifth month, has devastated the health sector in the Gaza Strip, with less than half of its hospitals only partially functioning as scores of people are killed and wounded in daily bombardments. Israel accuses the militants of using hospitals and other civilian buildings as cover. Palestinians … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave JERUSALEM — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin visited Israel on Monday seeking to persuade Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to wind down the bloodiest phase of its war in Gaza, with the death toll approaching 20,000 and new talks underway on a possible deal to free more hostages … Read more
I have been working day and night at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza for more than a month and a half, sometimes performing up to 20 reconstructive surgeries a day. Removing dead tissue from burns. Performing skin grafts. Handling stump closures for amputees. I have spent weeks sleeping in the hospital so … Read more
President Biden said that Gaza’s hospitals “must be protected,” as the enclave’s two largest hospitals — al-Shifa and al-Quds — remain surrounded by fierce fighting. Only one northern Gaza hospital is able to take new patients, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said. Civilian buildings appear to be increasingly at the center … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave TEL AVIV — The standoff between Israeli troops and the Hamas militants who Israel maintains are taking cover in buildings designated for humanitarian purposes deepened Monday, as the death toll soared and the most vulnerable Gazans continued to get caught in the crossfire. These kinds of buildings, … Read more