Hospital News

Bangladeshi coronavirus sufferers shun hospitals

By AFP

Dhaka - Thousands of beds for coronavirus patients in Bangladesh are lying empty despite the country struggling with a rising caseload as people are too scared to enter hospitals, officials and sufferers say.

Panama hospitals on verge of collapse as virus cases surge

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Panama - Hospitals in Panama are on the brink of collapse as coronavirus cases spike in the Central American country worst hit by the pandemic, where doctors are already exhausted.

Iraq virus spike risks pushing strained doctors over the edge

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Baghdad - Unpaid salaries, mask shortages, threats from patients' families -- doctors across Iraq are cracking under such conditions, just as they face a long-feared spike in coronavirus cases.

Doctors Without Borders pulls out of Afghan attack hospital

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Kabul - Doctors Without Borders has pulled out of a hospital in the Afghan capital where gunmen last month killed 25 people, including mothers, in a horrific attack on a maternity ward.

Delhi coronavirus fears mount as hospital beds run out

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New Delhi - Ashwani Jain succumbed to the coronavirus in an ambulance as his family pleaded with several hospitals to take him in, the latest victim of the pandemic sweeping through the Indian capital and exposing a deadly shortage of hospital beds.

MSF urges probe into gruesome Afghan hospital attack

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Kabul - Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Wednesday called for an inquiry into last month's horrifying attack on an Afghan hospital, which the international charity said killed 18, including some women who were about to give birth.

Belarus volunteers plug gaps in supplies to virus-hit medics

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Minsk - Young men in dark hoodies and tracksuit bottoms form a human chain to pass down black sacks from a storeroom and pile them in the back of a car.

Peru says will build hospital in Amazon for COVID-19 patients

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- Peru said it will construct a fast-build hospital in the Amazon as it seeks to respond to a growing COVID-19 emergency sweeping through the indigenous population.

No beds, packed morgues: Mumbai hospitals near collapse

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Mumbai - Packed morgues, bodies in wards, patients forced to share beds and medical workers run ragged: Mumbai's war against coronavirus has pushed the Indian city's hospitals to breaking point.

Afghan hospital attackers 'came to kill mothers': MSF

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Kabul - Gunmen who stormed a hospital in the Afghan capital this week had come to "kill the mothers," a medical charity said, as survivors expressed shock and horror at the gruesome attack.

Headscarves and bare hands: women deliver baby during Kabul hospital attack

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Kabul - As armed men rampaged through an Afghan hospital, shooting dead mothers and babies, a group of pregnant women hid in a room with one of them about to give birth.

Afghan hospital attackers 'came to kill mothers': MSF

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Kabul - Gunmen who stormed a hospital in the Afghan capital this week had come to "kill the mothers" at the maternity ward, medical charity Doctors Without Borders has said.

Bangladesh builds mega field hospital as virus outbreak worsens

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Dhaka - Bangladesh has prepared a huge field hospital in three weeks to treat coronavirus patients in an attempt to fight the intensifying outbreak in the country.

Pompeo urges Kabul, Taliban cooperation after 'appalling' attack

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Washington - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday urged the Afghan government and Taliban to cooperate after grisly attacks on a maternity hospital and a funeral dealt a blow to US efforts to end the war.

Russia launches ventilator probe after five die in 'nightmare' fire

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Sanktpeterburg - Officials launched a probe into ventilators used at some Russian medical facilities on Tuesday after five coronavirus patients, including three attached to the breathing machines, died in a fire at a Saint Petersburg hospital.

Afghan forces to resume offensive after infants, mourners attacked

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Kabul - Afghanistan's floundering peace process appeared further in peril Tuesday, with security forces ordered to resume offensive operations after attacks targeted a maternity ward and mourners at a funeral.

In Madrid flat, four young doctors face pandemic together

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Madrid - In their tiny living room, Maria Luisa Prado told her flatmates about a 28-year-old woman "who was also a family doctor like us" who died from coronavirus.

Clinging to life in a Paris intensive care unit

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Paris - Two hospital rooms, next to each other but separated by fate: In one, a COVID-19 patient still unconscious and weakening after five weeks of round-the-clock care.

German virus patients are 'lucky' ones

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Aachen - After making it through the first night breathing on her own, 60-year-old Martina Hamacher can only say: "I've been lucky.

Barcelona's biggest hospital devoted to virus patients

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Barcelona - There is an eerie silence in the corridors of Barcelona's biggest hospital and angst inside the intensive care units, where all efforts are being directed to fighting the coronavirus pandemic.

Greek health workers demonstrate over coronavirus conditions

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Athens - Hundreds of Greek healthcare workers demonstrated on Tuesday to protest at working conditions and lack of manpower and equipment in public hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic.

New 4,000-bed coronavirus field hospital opens in London

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London - Britain on Friday opened a new 4,000-bed temporary hospital to treat the most seriously ill coronavirus patients, as day-on-day deaths surged to a new record and royal officials said Queen Elizabeth II would make a rare crisis address to the nation.

New 4,000-bed coronavirus field hospital opens in London

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London - Prince Charles opened a new 4,000-bed temporary hospital in a conference centre in east London on Friday, the first of several being built in Britain to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.

Greece calls for health volunteers to combat virus

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Athens - Greece on Monday put out a call for health volunteers to help combat the spread of the coronavirus as the health minister said hundreds of additional medical staff had been deployed.

Cruise ships could become floating hospitals, Trump says

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Washington - Cruise ships could be converted into floating hospitals to treat cases of the novel coronavirus, US President Donald Trump said Thursday.

Coronavirus could create bed shortage in US hospitals

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Washington - Beds, ventilators and masks soon could all be in short supply in US hospitals rocked by the novel coronavirus, with doctors worrying they may have to start choosing which patients to treat.

S. Korean nurses' bandages become badges of honour

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Daegu - Across their foreheads, cheeks and noses, the nurses on the front line of South Korea's struggle against the coronavirus outbreak wear bandages that have become badges of honour.

German hospital creates drive-through for coronavirus tests

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Gro - In the small German town of Gross-Gerau, you don't go to the drive-through for a burger and fries. You go to get tested for the novel coronavirus.

Wuhan doctor recounts fears and hope at virus frontline

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Bejing - One month after makeshift hospitals opened to chaos and confusion at the epicentre of China's coronavirus epidemic, frontline doctor Ma Yonggang is finally seeing more empty beds as fewer patients arrive.

Italy deploys emergency field hospitals to fight virus

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Cremona - A blue tent packed with masked medics in nylon overalls and rubber gloves greets patients outside an Italian hospital at the European epicentre of the new coronavirus epidemic.