Health

The WHO said on Sunday it had certified Egypt as malaria free, marking the elimination of a disease that had been present in the country since ancient times.

Health authorities warned that electricity generators at all Gaza health facilities will soon stop, saying this poses a major threat to patients' lives.

A campaign to vaccinate a final 200,000 children in north Gaza against polio began on Tuesday, despite a dire need for fuel, among other challenges.

There have been 14,750 diagnoses for acute malnutrition among children aged from six months to just under five years since mid-January, according to the UN.

An mpox surge in Africa prompted the World Health Organization on Wednesday to declare a public health emergency of international concern, its highest alarm.

The WHO said rising cases of mpox in the DRC and neighbouring countries constitutes 'a public health emergency of international concern'.

35 people have been taken to hospital, with most in intensive care, following a food poisoning outbreak linked to a restaurant chain in Riyadh

The field hospital was expected to serve around 30 to 40 patients daily, but it ended up treating around a thousand patients a day.

Ahmed Muhanna, the head of Gaza's al-Awda Hospital, said health workers' morale was 'high' even amid a severe Israeli siege.

The World Health Organisation's chief said staff from the UN agency found patients 'screaming in pain' as they received medical care on the floor of an overstretched southern Gaza hospital.