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  • Egypt: The plight of health institutions

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    Out of the 91 million people who make up the total population of Egypt, only 83 million currently live in Egypt, according to the Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics. Among them, tens of thousands of medical students graduate every year from Egyptian universities to join the ranks of […]

  • Ecuador: health as a hot election issue

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    In Ecuador health is a matter of public services (with five hospitals managed by the Health Ministry in the three biggest cities and dozens of health sub-centers in the rest of the country) and private enterprise (with over 40 hospitals and clinics, that, in most cases, work with private health […]

  • "The Health Trial". When you end up in a coffin, one thing is sure: patient’s condition has never been worse. Image from ‏@RanaMuhTaha on Twitter

    Bad Health Care: The Pandemics of Poverty

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    The content package of this post relates to the “Death Threat,” and addresses non-communicable diseases. The one I want to speak about is poverty. Because all the other NCDs  you can think of — like obesity, cancer, etc. — are just a consequence of pandemic poverty. Pandemic poverty is an […]