Posts Tagged ‘public health & medicine’
Myanmar military junta ‘deliberately bombing medical facilities’ with secret jungle hospital now being sought
The Myanmar military junta is deliberately targeting medical facilities and medical staff with airstrikes, raids by soldiers and the burning down of buildings, using a map of public hospitals and clinics they drew up in 2019, according to a new report shared exclusively with Sky News. Myanmar Witness, a project run by the UK-based Centre…
Read MoreSurgeon at Tennessee clinic fatally shot by patient
One person is dead and another is detained after a shooting at a Collierville clinic Tuesday afternoon. Collierville Police said a healthcare worker was fatally shot by a patient in an exam room at the Campbell Clinic on Poplar Avenue. A witness who was in the building told WREG a patient had been threatening someone…
Read MorePakistani Police Say Gunmen Kill 1 Soldier And Wound Another In Attack On Polio Workers
Gunmen killed one soldier and wounded another Wednesday when they opened fire on security forces escorting a team of polio workers during a door-to-door inoculation campaign in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold near the Afghan border, police said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack in North Waziristan, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa…
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