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Africa should strengthen health systems for improved prevention
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and control of NCDS
Haemophilia also spelled hemophilia is a mostly inherited genetic disorder that impairs the body s ability to make blood clots, a process needed to stop bleeding. This results in people bleeding for a longer time after an injury, easy bruising, and an increased risk of bleeding inside joints-
-or the brain. Those with a mild case of the disease may have symptoms only after an accident or during surgery. Bleeding into a joint can result in permanent damage while bleeding in the brain can result in long term headaches, seizures, or a decreased level of consciousness.
HEMATOLOGISTS are calling for inclusion of blood-related diseases in the national plan against non communicable diseases (NCDs) and the formulation of a treatment guideline to streamline responses by medical personnel caring for hemophilia and sickle-cell patients.
Disastrous impact of COVID-19 on Bangladeshi migrant workers
Bangladeshi migrant workers in the Middle East and other regions have been hard hit by COVID-19 deaths and job losses as well as government and employer harassment in the countries where they are working. Those who have managed to return to Bangladesh are confronted with starvation, indebtedness and other miseries.
More than 10 million Bangladeshis, or about one in every 20 people from the country, are migrant workers. Bangladesh is sixth highest in the list of countries that send their workers overseas. More than three million are employed in the Middle East, including nearly two million in Saudi Arabia.
Two steps forward: Women talk of an age of opportunity
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Two steps forward: Women talk of an age of opportunity
Three Anglo immigrants to Israel share their perspectives on working in medicine, social services and sports and how all that is changing two decades into the 21st century.
(March 8, 2021 / JNS) Civil-rights activist Shirley Chisholm once remarked, “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” That motto ran through the veins of so many women in the 1960s and ’70s women who for far too long were told that they didn’t belong in the hallways of power.