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WHO: ongoing cholera upsurge

Posted on September 25, 2023 by Hippocratic Post

Comprehensive cholera statistics for 2022, published by WHO today, shed light on the scale and extent of the ongoing cholera upsurge. While data for cholera remain inadequate, cases reported to WHO in 2022 were more than double those in 2021. Forty-four countries reported cases, a 25% increase from the 35 countries that reported cases in […]

Letter from Haiti

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Dr Javid Abdelmoneim

Dr Javid Abdelmoneim travelled to Haiti in 2010 to assist in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake. In the midst of the mayhem, a patient handed him a letter that would change his life. Six years on and still coming to terms with the death and destruction he’d witnessed, Javid sat down to write a […]