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A nurse touches the hand of patient Iraqi girl Nawras Raed, six month, at a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in Qayyara, Iraq. Reuters

Babies Starve as War Grinds on in Mosul

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 12, 2017 | Middle East

Qayyara – The babies cry with hunger but are so severely malnourished that doctors treating them at a hospital in Iraq would make their condition worse if they fed them enough to stop the pangs. Many of the starving infants are from Mosul, where war between ISIS...

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Robots to Help Doctors in Recognizing Patients’ Pain

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 14, 2017 | Health

San Francisco, London- A team of US researchers has developed a new technique allowing doctors to understand the patient’s facial expressions, through a robot that can express pain. This will definitely help doctors in diagnosing disease and evaluating the level of...

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Sudan: Doctors Continue Nationwide Strike Across All Hospitals

by Mustafa Sirri | Oct 8, 2016 | Middle East

Doctors working in Sudan’s government hospitals are on strike for the second day running. They are demanding better working environments, the provision of proper equipment and protection from repeated attacks on them in hospitals and health centres. The Central...

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Medical Situation in Aleppo is Catastrophic and There is a Lack of Personnel

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 25, 2016 | Middle East

An ambulance leaves and another carrying many wounded people arrives. Its doors are quickly opened so that the injured can be taken into the hospital. The injured struggle to catch their breaths and blood covers their bodies and what remains of their torn clothes....

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An injured man is evacuated from the aftermath of an air strike in the al-Qatarji area of Aleppo last April. AFP

Director of Quds Hospital in Aleppo: Moving Injured People is Suicidal

by Paula Astih | Jun 21, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut-Syrian doctor Zahed Qaterji, 29, known in the city of Aleppo in northern Syria by the name of “Hamza Khatib” has just finished his 240-hour shift of continuous relief at Al Quds Hospital, which is located in an area controlled by the opposition. The...