#Healthcare

EU Commission: new “Global Health Strategy”. Prevention, primary healthcare, universal health coverage

EU Commission: new “Global Health Strategy” to “improve health and well-being of all”

Finland: creation of KATY, Association of Catholic Healthcare Workers, to ensure spiritual care and defence of Church’s teachings

EU: contract for pandemic influenza vaccine signed. Kyriakides (Commission), “to protect our citizens should such an emergency arise in the future”.

Doctors with Africa CUAMM. Atzori: “We provide assistance to displaced persons and hospitals in Ukraine and to refugees in Moldova”

The Italian NGO has been working in partnership with the local association VRB in the country invaded by the Russians,…

A hospital in shantytowns treating 130,000 people a year. Its founder Morino: “Doctors here are the carers of civil society”

“Forty-two distinct languages are spoken in Kenya, and in most of these there is one word meaning both ‘poor’ and…

Ukraine. Rizzi: ‘We try to reach out to children with cancer to treat them locally. We evacuate the most critical patients”

“One thousand on a total of 4,000 paediatric cancer patients have been tracked down, 700 have been evacuated, approximately 80…

Council of Europe: social rights report. In several countries, workers poorly protected and right to health not sufficiently guaranteed

World Day of the Sick. Fr Angelelli ( CEI): “To cure if possible, to care for always”

Not only expertise, but also mercy, proximity, consolation. And, above all, hope. Those are the key words of health care…

Afghanistan, Emergency’s hospital in Kabul: The world’s most serious humanitarian crisis”

“I hope that the international community will ensure that political issues don’t interfere with the delivery of aids to the…

Africa. Fr Carraro ( CUAMM): “The latest challenge is to ensure continued support to mothers and children and enhance health workers’ skills”

The Padua-based NGO’s new project will involve 14 hospitals in 8 countries. “Human capital is the greatest asset,” the director…