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China rolls out the Health Silk Road
WEBWhen President Xi Jinping was on a phone call in mid-March with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conti, before the arrival of a China Eastern flight from Shanghai to Milan full of medical help, the key takeaway was the Chinese pledge to develop a Health Silk Road (Jiankang Sichou Zhilu).. That was in fact already inbuilt in the Belt and Road …
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China admits 'shortcomings' in healthcare system
WEBThe coronavirus outbreak exposed “shortcomings” in China’s public healthcare system, a top health official admitted Saturday, saying that reforms are underway to improve the country’s disease prevention and control mechanisms. China has faced criticism both at home and abroad for downplaying the virus and concealing …
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NYT equates China’s health workers with Adolf Eichmann
WEBIn a article on the front page of The New York Times on January 13, reporter Li Yuan equated the public health and medical personnel behind China’s successful battle against Covid-19 in the city of Xian to Adolf Eichmann, a principal architect of the Holocaust. The article’s opening sentence views these personnel as typical of “the millions of …
Misinformation fuels Papua New Guinea's crisis
WEBThe survey found that nearly 10% of Papua New Guineans would refuse a vaccine, with the figure above a quarter of the population in some provinces. Glen Mola, a professor who works at Port Moresby General Hospital, said if medical workers refused vaccination because of misinformation, the country’s health system could collapse.
Mental health issues arise in Hong Kong
WEBAccording to the latest survey by the Chinese University of Hong Kong to assess the mental health status of Hong Kong people, the average score for the mental health index hit its lowest in eight years at 46.41 marks. Last year, the score was 50.20. The passing score is 52. The university interviewed 1,009 people aged 15 or above …
China digitizing health care up and beyond Covid-19
WEBOn November 9, 2022, despite these changes, China’s government announced plans to further digitize the national health system and associated services. This policy announcement forms part of China’s 14th Five Year Plan (2021–2025). The overarching objective is to create a framework for building a nationwide platform that …
Singapore's vaunted health tourism under pressure
WEBAccording to one estimate, Indonesians spend about $600 million a year on treatment in Singapore, Thailand and Australia. Much of that is in Singapore, which normally receives about 500,000 overseas patients a year, half of them coming from Indonesia alone, according to the Medical Tourism Association.
Korean startup redefining regenerative healthcare
WEBNow, a South Korea-based medical startup, ROKIT Healthcare, has come up with a radical regenerative solution. First, the wound is digitally scanned, a process that can be done remotely. Then, liposuction harvested from the patient’s healthy abdominal fat is used to create “bio ink.”. Next, using the bio ink, a bioprinter generates a patch
Growing environmental awareness in Vietnam
WEBShell began his lecture by discussing the harmful effects of particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5), one of the most dangerous pollutants. Primarily released by motor vehicles and industrial activity, the small size of PM2.5 (a small fraction of the diameter of a human hair) means the particulate can get trapped in the lung and cause a number of …
Bali to get international hospital, foreign doctors
WEBThe new Bali International Hospital is scheduled to open in 2023 in what Widodo has described as a special economic zone, providing a convenient alternative for an estimated 600,000 Indonesians who now seek treatment abroad. Indonesian President Joko Widodo has approved the new hospital on Bali. Photo: WikiCommons.
'White lungs' scare Chinese and their travel hosts
WEBThe Global Times said social media posts by tourist boards in a dozen countries including France, Thailand, Canada, Australia and New Zealand had welcomed Chinese tourists. Meanwhile, “white lungs” and “original strains” are now the top online keywords in China. Some netizens suspected that the “white lung” symptom, which …
Elderly Japan on brink of a demographic crisis
WEBJapan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida used a policy speech at the opening of the 2023 session of Japan’s parliament, the National Diet, to declare that Japan was “on the brink of not being able to maintain social functions” due to the country’s population crisis. The country’s median age is 49 — the second highest in the world.
India’s Dalit women lack access to healthcare and die young
WEBHealthcare related discrimination against Dalit women is a common occurrence in India. The latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data states that 70.4% of the Dalit women surveyed said they had problems accessing health care. Bharati added: “I have faced ill-treatment at AIIMS and Jawaharlal Cancer Hospital in Bhopal as …
Canada falsely blames foreign students for its housing, health-care
WEBThe government’s official news release, along with the media coverage of the announcement, continues to scapegoat international students for some of Canada’s biggest challenges, stating that rapid increases in the number of international students arriving in Canada put “ pressure on housing, health care and other services.”.
Manish Pant, Author at Asia Times
WEBby Manish Pant January 20, 2022. By sheer numbers alone India’s achievement in the effort to control the Covid-19 pandemic is mind-boggling. So far, more than 900 million people have been vaccinated against the virus across 327,000 centers, serviced by more than a million health workers. More than 64% of the country’s population of nearly 1
Transforming Pakistan through meditation
WEBThese orders have been promoting peace and interfaith harmony. However, the endeavors of the Azeemi Sufi order are particularly laudable, which have been transforming Pakistan through meditation. Today, meditation has become hugely popular in Pakistan. At present, there are almost 60 meditation halls that have been set up by the …
Belt & Road encircles Latin America and the Caribbean
WEBLast October, Cuba became a member of Belt & Road’s Energy Partnership. Established in 2019 to promote cooperation in renewable energy, it now has 32 members in Asia-Pacific, Central and South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America. Along with communism, the US trade embargo has held down the Cuban …
Is Vladimir Putin seriously sick
WEBWhatever health problems Russian president Vladimir Putin has been suffering, they may have recently grown considerably worse. Putin has canceled three important events in the past week, fueling new speculation about his health. Firstly, he canceled his annual meeting with the press, an important opportunity for the Kremlin …
Rug pulled from under Iran's carpet industry
WEBIn 2018, following then-president Donald Trump’s dumping of the JCPOA and imposition of broad-ranging sanctions, Iran’s US-bound exports plummeted, including rug shipments. According to Iran National Carpet Center, the Persian Gulf country’s rug exports in 2018 amounted to $238.4 million, but by 2019 had slumped to just $70.5 million.
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