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HONG KONG: Hong Kong's public healthcare system will be revamped next year, with higher service charges for non-urgent cases and an annual cap on medical expenses.
KOTA KINABALU: The balik kampung rush for Hari Raya and the school holidays has resulted in three deaths and eight injuries following two accidents in Telupid, some 200km away, over the past two days.
SAO PAULO, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Brazilian state of Sao Paulo declared a health emergency Wednesday as dengue cases surge, allowing authorities to accelerate financial and medical response efforts.
BEIJING (SCMP): A Chinese woman who rescued a drowning girl from a hotel pool while wearing a qipao and a facial treatment mask has been dubbed "mask qipao superwoman" on social media.
KUALA TERENGGANU: A kindergarten assistant who was taking out the rubbish was injured when a bicycle recklessly thrown from the 12th floor of a People's Housing Project (PPR) flats struck her head.
TAKING out the trash is typically a safe and necessary routine. However, picture being struck by a bicycle that has been thrown from above while you are carrying out the chore.
(Reuters) -The Trump administration's decision to pause U.S. foreign aid has "substantially disrupted" supply of HIV treatments in eight countries, which could soon run out of these life-saving medicines, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
PETALING JAYA: The private medical team of His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, provided emergency treatment to two motorcyclists involved in an accident on Jalan Sultan Ismail in Kuala Lumpur.
MANILA, March 22 (Xinhua) -- A forward truck lost its break while traveling on a highway in Benguet province in northern Philippines on Saturday afternoon and crashed into eight other vehicles along the way, killing a motorcyclist and injuring several others, police said.
GEORGE TOWN: A pair of volunteer firefighters were injured during a firefighting operation involving two factories and a shop in Jalan Patani here Sunday (March 16).
IPOH: The round-the-clock operational hours at the Tanjung Malim health clinic's emergency ward need to be reinstated, says Datuk Dr Mah Hang Soon.
COLOMBO: A Chinese tourist who reportedly leaned out of a moving train in Sri Lanka for photos suffered severe injuries after her head hit a tunnel wall, causing her to fall.
The families of six people who died of food poisoning after dining at a Malaysian restaurant in Taiwan will receive in total a record sum of NT$10.8 million (S$436,944 - RM1.45mil) in government compensation.
Tan Kien specialised medical cluster in HCM City will develop into a 'medical campus', the first of its kind in Vietnam, according to the Department of Health.
SEOUL: The number of deaths at hospital emergency rooms declined during the first seven months of this year as fewer patients with mild cases visited ERs for treatment amid the prolonged walkout by trainee doctors, the health ministry said Wednesday (Sept 11).
SEOUL: An elementary school teacher accused of stabbing an eight-year-old to death had laughed while receiving emergency medical treatment after the incident, a local media outlet reported on Wednesday (Feb 19).
An American non-profit helps develop treatments for nano-rare disease patients.
JOHANNESBURG, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Following the declaration of mpox as a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) by the World Health Organization (WHO) this week, South Africa's National Department of Health urged travelers, especially those from mpox-endemic countries, to cooperate with health officials at all ports of entry.
PETALING JAYA: The co-payment feature may deter patients from seeking necessary treatments as the out-of-pocket expenses might be too high, says the Federation of Malaysian Consumers Associations (Fomca) secretary-general Dr Saravanan Thambirajah.
Patient visited A&E department at around 11pm on Sunday night and was assessed to be in stable condition at 11.15am the next dayPamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital says it is ‘very concerned’ about case and has referred it to coroner
