insert_link Health / Medical ‘Tied to the bed’: Horrors of giving birth in Serbia By Miodrag SOVILJ Biljana Cicic-Stanic still bristles when she remembers the pain, violence, and humiliation she endured while giving birth to her son in Serbia, an experience many women say is normal in the Balkan country's hospitals. Cicic-Stanic said medical staff tied her to the bed with restraints and nurses used their elbows to press against her stomach. "Everything was so violent," Cicic-Stanic told AFP, saying doctors […] todayMarch 13, 2024 6
insert_link Health / Medical NPPF open letter to patients and members of Namibian medical aid funds Dear Patients and Members of Namibian Medical Aid Funds… The purpose of this communication is to provide some information on the latest developments within the Namibian private healthcare system, a system of such quality and standard that it even surpasses many systems in first-world countries. This is due in large part to a combination of excellent facilities, excellent practitioners and an excellent financial system providing a functional third-party payer (medical […] todayNovember 16, 2023 449
Paying it forward: Kenyan coastal doctor Bashrahil Mohammed Mafudh has made it his life’s work to care for the most vulnerable in his community, at no cost.