JOHANNESBURG – If medical schemes invested more assets into equity and property – and less into cash and bonds – they would not have to rely so heavily on member contributions to build reserves, according to head of Alexander Forbes Health, Roshan Bhana, who says that schemes are missing a “simple trick” by investing so conservatively.
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Global pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, has partnered with South Africa’s Biovac Institute to produce a potentially life-saving pneumonia vaccine for infants, a cabinet minister said on Tuesday.
According to the World Health Organisation, pneumonia is the leading infectious cause of death among children worldwide, accounting for 15 percent of all deaths for children under the age of 5 years.
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Kristi Oloffson is creating a video record of another world, a world that might be a little hard for most Americans to accept. She’s just hoping that people will open their eyes and really see the images she’s capturing.
The 29-year-old Herscher High School grad is serving these days on a Mercy Ship, offering free medical services for the poor while docked in Madagascar in Africa. They arrived in August and will stay until next June. This mission was definitely a change of course for a career that seemed on the fast track — in a very different direction.
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The King Air350 air ambulance aircraft was bought from a US-based company at a cost of 2.5 million dollars. Managing director of MTDN, owner of East African Aviation, Mulat Lemlemayehu (Capt.), told The Reporter that more than 500,000 US dollars were spent to equip the aircraft with a state-of-the-art medical equipment required to give emergency medical services on board.
Mulat flew the new aircraft all the way from Greenville, South Carolina to Addis Ababa three weeks ago. “It was a 28 hours flight or it took four and half days to reach here.”
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As a young anesthesiologist, Mark Newton, MD, made a brave and unusual decision. Together with his wife Sue and their two small sons, he moved to rural Kenya to work at Kijabe Hospital. It wasn’t just a visit; with over a decade of medical mission work under his belt, Dr. Newton realized that to have an enduring influence as a medical educator in Africa, he needed to live where he was practicing.
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Toronto, Ontario–(Newsfile Corp. – October 29, 2015) – CardioComm Solutions, Inc. (TSXV: EKG) (“CardioComm Solutions” or the “Company”) a global medical provider of consumer heart monitoring and medical electrocardiogram (“ECG”) software solutions, today confirmed that is has signed a marketing and sales agreement with UAE-based Europtima Medical Solutions FZ, LLC (“EMS”), a company dedicated to provide medical technology, hardware and software solutions to hospitals, private clinics and other medical facilities in several middle east countries as well as Africa and Europe.
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