Apollo to Operate Tertiary Care Hospital in Yemen
Apollo Group of Hospitals, Asia's largest integrated private healthcare provider,// has joined hands with Hayel Saeed Anam Group (HSA) of the Middle East to bring super-specialty healthcare system to Yemen. ....The two groups signed the partnership agreement to operate the tertiary care hospital in Taiz, Yemen, said a statement by Apollo Group here. ....Shawki Ahmed Hayel, executive director o...TB Cases, Deaths Decline in Yemen Because of Awareness Programs
Tuberculosis cases and deaths in Yemen are declining because of an intensive awareness campaign about the disease and the availability of training programs// for health workers, experts said recently, IRIN News reports. ....According to World Health Organization statistics, TB incidence in Yemen has decreased from 236 cases per 100,000 people in 1990 to 82 cases per 100,000 people in 2005. Durin...Sanaa is at least 2,500 years old. It claims to be the world's oldest inhabited city. It is also the capital of Yemen in Middle// East. ..Its population of 1.74 millions is said to be living on living on borrowed time. For in a country where water is a scarce commodity, whatever water is available is soaked up by khat. ..Everywhere one turns in Yemen, one can find men with cheeks bulging biza...