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Reuters
24-06-2025
- Health
- Reuters
Over 40 people, including children, killed in Sudan hospital attack, says WHO chief
GENEVA, June 24 (Reuters) - Over 40 people, including children and health care workers, were killed in an attack on a hospital in Sudan at the weekend, the head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. Saturday's attack on the Al Mujlad Hospital took place in West Kordofan, near the front line between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for attacks on health infrastructure to stop, without saying who was responsible.
Bloomberg
16-06-2025
- Health
- Bloomberg
RFK Jr.'s Moves Gut Vaccine Infrastructure, Fired Advisers Say
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to overhaul a key committee on vaccine policy has left the country's vaccine infrastructure 'critically weakened,' former members of the group said in a piece published in JAMA on Monday. Last week, the health secretary dismissed all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, before appointing eight new members, several of whom are vocal vaccine critics. The abruptness of the terminations undermines the committee, the fired members say, in a rare public letter decrying the government's actions.
RNZ News
08-06-2025
- Health
- RNZ News
Health Minister announces details of fixes for Auckland City Hospital
Auckland City Hospital Photo: RNZ / Dan Cook Health Minister Simeon Brown has announced more investment to strengthen critical infrastructure at Auckland City Hospital and Greenlane Clinical Centre, as part of the third part of the Facilities Infrastructure Remediation Programme. "This government is committed to investing in and upgrading critical infrastructure that supports our health system - and that includes ensuring the hospitals we rely on every day are safe, modern, and fit for purpose," Brown said. The government's Budget last month included funding for a number of health infrastructure improvements at Nelson, Palmerston North, Wellington and Auckland City hospitals. The latest funding will be spent to pay for critical upgrades and replacements to the power, heating, building management, and safety systems that support clinical services at Auckland City Hospital and Greenlane Clinical Centre, Brown said. RNZ revealed in April that Health New Zealand has admitted it marked an upgrade to faulty pipes at Auckland City Hospital as complete when in fact it was not . Health Minister Simeon Brown Photo: RNZ / REECE BAKER The hospital's water systems were identified as one of 82 "very high priority risks" at hospitals nationwide two years ago. Health NZ said in a response to a request under the Official Information Act ( to RNZ it had fixed them. But Brown said in a speech in March that the water system had failed twice recently. Today he said: "Replacing the hot water pipe system in the main building of Auckland City Hospital is a priority within the Health Infrastructure Plan, and this investment will help speed up delivery by funding the design work for the next stage of this project. Getting ahead on the design work now will mean we can fast-track the next stage by eight months." The new funding builds on the first two stages of the remediation programme, which are due for completion by the end of 2025. Health New Zealand would manage the work to minimise any disruption to clinical services, and ensure patients and staff were not affected. "These upgrades are about ensuring Auckland Hospital is able to deliver reliable care for patients and has increased resilience through upgraded systems." This third investment tranche is part of the government's $1 billion Budget 2025 hospital infrastructure investment includes:
RNZ News
08-06-2025
- Health
- RNZ News
Watch live: Health Minister announces details of fixes for Auckland City Hospital
Auckland City Hospital Photo: RNZ / Dan Cook Health Minister Simeon Brown has announced more investment to strengthen critical infrastructure at Auckland City Hospital and Greenlane Clinical Centre, as part of the third part of the Facilities Infrastructure Remediation Programme. "This government is committed to investing in and upgrading critical infrastructure that supports our health system - and that includes ensuring the hospitals we rely on every day are safe, modern, and fit for purpose," Brown said. The government's Budget last month included funding for a number of health infrastructure improvements at Nelson, Palmerston North, Wellington and Auckland City hospitals. The latest funding will be spent to pay for critical upgrades and replacements to the power, heating, building management, and safety systems that support clinical services at Auckland City Hospital and Greenlane Clinical Centre, Brown said. RNZ revealed in April that Health New Zealand has admitted it marked an upgrade to faulty pipes at Auckland City Hospital as complete when in fact it was not . Health Minister Simeon Brown Photo: RNZ / REECE BAKER The hospital's water systems were identified as one of 82 "very high priority risks" at hospitals nationwide two years ago. Health NZ said in a response to a request under the Official Information Act ( to RNZ it had fixed them. But Brown said in a speech in March that the water system had failed twice recently. Today he said: "Replacing the hot water pipe system in the main building of Auckland City Hospital is a priority within the Health Infrastructure Plan, and this investment will help speed up delivery by funding the design work for the next stage of this project. Getting ahead on the design work now will mean we can fast-track the next stage by eight months." The new funding builds on the first two stages of the remediation programme, which are due for completion by the end of 2025. Health New Zealand would manage the work to minimise any disruption to clinical services, and ensure patients and staff were not affected. "These upgrades are about ensuring Auckland Hospital is able to deliver reliable care for patients and has increased resilience through upgraded systems." This third investment tranche is part of the government's $1 billion Budget 2025 hospital infrastructure investment includes:
Washington Post
28-05-2025
- Health
- Washington Post
What to know about a cholera outbreak in Susan that has killed over 170 people
CAIRO — A fast-spreading cholera outbreak has hit Sudan , killing 172 people, with more than 2,500 others becoming ill in the past week. Centered around Khartoum, the disease has spread as many Sudanese who had fled the country's war return to their homes in the capital and its twin city of Omdurman. There, they often can only find unclean water — a dangerous conduit for cholera — since much of the health and sanitation infrastructure has collapsed amid the fightiing.
