‘It’s never been as bad as it is now,’ one nurse in the intensive care unit told reportersAn intense surge in Covid cases is pushing Oregon’s healthcare system to the brink as mostly unvaccinated patients fill up hospitals and nearly all available ICU …
Oxygen firms accused of intimidating Mexican hospitals during pandemic
Hospitals received letters threatening large fines after they installed their own onsite O2 plants in response to shortagesIn March 2020, Benjamin Espinoza Zavala saw an entire floor of his small hospital in Guanajuato, central Mexico, converted into C…
Record number of NHS England patients waiting for routine hospital treatment
Health secretary warns 5.45m figure will rise sharply even further, as result of backlog from pandemicSajid Javid has warned that the number of people needing hospital treatment in England is set to rise sharply, outstripping the new record of almost 5…
‘A great blow to Uganda’: surgeon John Baptist Mukasa dies of Covid
One of the few neurosurgeons in the country, Mukasa declined lucrative opportunities to work overseas, dedicating himself to training a new generation and going the ‘extra mile’ for patientsKennedy Owuor first fell over in his hotel room in Addis Ababa…
NHS drops from first to fourth among rich countries’ healthcare systems
Thinktank says longer wait for treatment since Covid pandemic is main reason, in study of 11 countriesThe NHS has lost its prestigious ranking as the best health system in a study of 11 rich countries by an influential US thinktank.The UK has fallen fr…