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NHK
14 hours ago
- Business
- NHK
US startup to launch AI healthcare assistant in Japan
A US startup has announced plans to roll out an AI assistant in Japan to help ease the country's shortage of medical workers. Hippocratic AI CEO Munjal Shah said he hopes the AI will eventually be able to detect health risks faced by elderly patients and alert human staff. He added the program will be especially useful in Japan, which has one of the highest proportions of people over 65 in the world. "It's a place where you're going to need a lot more healthcare workers and the only real answer to this is going to be AI," said Shah. The AI assistant currently provides patients with non-diagnostic support. It can make appointments, monitor their condition after hospitalization, and manage medication. The company says the program is already being used by 2.5 million people around the world. Hippocratic AI entered a partnership with a Tokyo-based venture firm in May, with plans to make the AI assistant available in Japan later this year.
Arab News
12-05-2025
- Health
- Arab News
Hundreds march in West Bank against killings of Palestinian medics
RAMALLAH: Hundreds of Palestinian Red Crescent staff marched in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday to protest the killing of medical workers in Gaza over the past 19 months of war. Gathering in the city's Clock Square, medical personnel, support staff and volunteers wore white and orange vests and waved flags bearing the Red Crescent's emblem. The demonstration marked World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, usually observed on May 8, and called for the 'protection for medical and humanitarian workers.' In a statement released Monday, the Red Crescent said 48 of their staff members have been killed in Gaza and the West Bank since the war began on October 7, 2023 — including 30 who 'were killed while performing their humanitarian duty wearing the Red Crescent emblem.' Protesters carried symbolic white shrouds bearing the names and pictures of the dead, as well as signs demanding the release of three staff members who have been detained by the Israeli army for over a year. Some 1,400 humanitarian and medical workers have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war, according to the statement, which added that 'dozens of medical personnel working in Gaza... were detained while performing their humanitarian duties.' It highlighted a particularly deadly attack in March in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, when 15 first responders including eight Red Crescent paramedics were killed by the Israeli army. The first responders were answering distress calls after Israeli air strikes. The incident drew international condemnation, including concern about possible war crimes from UN human rights commissioner Volker Turk. An Israeli military investigation, the results of which were published, acknowledged 'professional failures' and 'violations of orders' during the shooting.
