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Doctors Without Borders concerned about insulin pen shortages in SA

The global medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders is calling on Danish pharmaceutical corporation Novo Nordisk and other manufacturers of insulin pens to take immediate action to ensure a continuous supply of insulin pens to South Africa. This comes after the Health Department forecasted supply challenges of insulin pen devices and advised health facilities to ration the distribution of insulin pens across the country. Campaign Advocacy Advisor at Doctors Without […]

today19 May 2024

News

Report finds disturbing gaps in services for sexual violence survivors in SA

Nearly three-quarters of public health facilities in South Africa designated to provide services to survivors of sexual violence are unable to provide all the components of medical or clinical forensic care, according to a new report released today by the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). An additional 7% of designated facilities reported they do not have the capacity to see victims, and would refer them […]

today29 November 2017

International News

Twenty-nine dead bodies found on crowded refugee boat

The bodies of 29 people, who perished in a pool of fuel and seawater on a crowded dinghy off Libya, have been found by the French aid group Doctors without Borders (MSF). MSF said its chartered rescue ship, the Bourbon Argos, picked up 107 people aboard the inflatable boat 26 nautical miles off Libya on Tuesday. Its crew initially counted 11 corpses on the dinghy's floor, which was flooded with […]

today27 October 2016

International News

Scores dead after Aleppo pounded in aerial onslaught

Syria's Aleppo city was the scene of mass carnage on Wednesday with at least 81 civilians killed in air strikes on rebel-held neighbourhoods, a local rescue group said. First responders said the divided city's eastern sector was pounded by more than 50 Russian and Syrian government missile attacks throughout the day that also wounded more than 87 people - some in critical condition. "Up until this moment the Civil Defence […]

today13 October 2016

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