Tag: Healthcare
As India’s healthcare system struggles with COVID-19, Catholic hospitals are on...
Church-run hospital in Mumbai is treating about 125 patients each day, 25 of whom are on ventilators
Catholic who was Thailand’s first female doctor honored by Google
Years ahead of her time, the medical pioneer opened her own clinic in the 1920s to provide quality care to those in need
From gadget addiction to anxiety: Pandemic takes its toll on mental...
Online hospital survey found that 30 percent of respondents across India showed signs of depression
‘There’s a lot of anxiety, anger,’ as Filipinos deal with lockdown
Mental stress is across the board in the Philippines during the pandemic
Philippine church people walk with poor amid threats, challenges
First part: Churches in Philippines struggle to help those battered by pandemic
This is the second of three parts.
Guillermo Calderon’s kin and neighbors in the...
Pope Francis honors nurses, midwives as ‘saints next door’
At least 90,000 health care workers have been infected by the new coronavirus, and more than 260 nurses have died
Churches in Philippines struggle to help those battered by pandemic
The upending of work and social patterns has sparked a mental health crisis in a country that lags badly in health care metrics
People living with HIV face hardships due to COVID-19 lockdown
It is discrimination and stigma that kill people living with HIV, not the disease itself
Philippine church leaders hit plan to impose ‘martial law-like’ lockdown
Catholic bishop warns that a martial law-type enforcement of the lockdown ‘will intensify people’s discontent’ and can be abused by soldiers and policemen
Fears that India’s health system will buckle under pandemic strain
‘Hospitals aren’t equipped enough to cater to the basic ailments of the people in normal times’
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