Rose Kiwanuka RN, Country Director of the Palliative Care Association of Uganda returns to Kampala this weekend after participating in a meeting on the World Drug Problem convened by the President of the UN General Assembly Mr. Mogens Lykketoft. UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon also presided at the meeting.
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When U.S. real estate investor Tom Petersen read about a great idea in a magazine to convert shipping containers into mobile medical clinics, he was inspired by its apparent simplicity and potential.Turning the idea into reality wasn’t so simple. One of the biggest challenges — and potential payoffs — in designing a “doc-in-a-box” clinic was creating access to telecommunications, according to a report in TopekaCapitalJournal.Continue reading→

Cape Town – Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town hopes to have its water back by the end of Friday, after a burst water main caused serious shortages this week.
The city’s health department said the pipe burst on Wednesday and technicians had been working to fix it.
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