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Drones to digital: Asia, Africa find ways to plug COVID health gaps

Drones to digital: Asia, Africa find ways to plug COVID health gaps

EMMA BATHA AS COVID-19 strains Pakistan's health system, tens of thousands of women doctors are sitting at home, their talents squandered in a country where millions have no access to medical care. Many families encourage their daughters to study medicine, not for a career, but to bolster their marriage prospects. The phenomenon even has a name - "doctor-brides". Appalled by the waste of expertise, entrepreneur Sara Saeed Khurram has set up a telemedicine platform enabling female medics to provide e-consultations from their homes to patients in rural communities. "Half the population in Pakistan – 100 million people – never get…
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Prime Minister of eSwatini dies from COVID-19

Prime Minister of eSwatini dies from COVID-19

AMBROSE Dlamini, the Prime Minister of eSwatini has become the first sitting head of state or government to succumb to COVID-19. Dlamini, 52, passed on in a South African hospital, four weeks after he contracted the COVID-19 and two weeks after admission to a hospital. In an announcement, eSwatini Deputy Prime Minister Themba Masuku said:  “Their majesties have commanded that I inform the nation of the sad and untimely passing away of His Excellency the Prime Minister Ambrose Manduvolo Dlamini. His excellency passed away this afternoon while under medical care in a hospital in South Africa.” Cyril Ramaphosa, the president…
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