Archive for April, 2019
A 21-year old student died last week of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC).
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019‘…..“A 21-year old student from Orangi Town, Anas Aslam, was brought to JPMC with high-grade fever and other complaints. Doctors suspected meningitis and the patient was shifted to ICU on deterioration in his health. He died yesterday [Friday] due to complications of the disease,” JPMC Executive Director Dr Seemin Jamali told The News on Saturday.
Dr Jamali said they had sent the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for analysis and the laboratory report confirmed that the young patient was infected with the lethal Naegleria fowleri infection…….’
A “brand-new type of terrorism:” At least 290 people are now known to have died in a coordinated attack on churches and hotels on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka.
Monday, April 22nd, 2019Sri Lanka blocks Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and the messaging apps WhatsApp and Viber
Sunday, April 21st, 2019luxury hotels and churches across Sri Lanka were bombed with at least 140 dead and about 600 injured.
Sunday, April 21st, 2019- St Anthony’s Shrine, Kochchikade
- St Sebastian’s Church, Negombo
- Zion Church, Batticaloa
- Cinnamon Grand, Colombo
- Shangri-La Hotel, Colombo
- The Kingsbury Hotel, Colombo
- Near Dehiwala Zoo in Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia
- A house in Mahawila Gardens, Dematagoda
“…….Christianity is a minority religion in Sri Lanka, accounting for less than 10% of the total population of 21.4 million.
Up to six explosions have been reported at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka as Christians celebrate Easter. Twenty possibly dead and at least 160 wounded
Sunday, April 21st, 2019
Hurricane Michael, which barreled into the Florida Panhandle in October, was actually a Category 5 storm when it hit the coast
Sunday, April 21st, 2019
Inequities in cervical cancer care in indigenous Peruvian women (about 25% of Peru’s population is indigenous)
Saturday, April 20th, 2019EWARS-in-a-Box: An early warning alert and response system for Mozambique
Saturday, April 20th, 2019“……EWARS in a box is a custom-built solution designed for use in difficult field conditions, such as following a natural disaster or in a conflict. Each box contains 60 mobile phones, laptops and a local server to collect, report and manage disease data. A solar generator and solar chargers allow the phones and laptops to function without 24-hour electricity. A single kit costs approximately US$15 000 and can support surveillance for 50 fixed or mobile clinics serving roughly 500 000 people.
Each health site receives a mobile phone loaded with a custom-developed disease reporting application that allows health workers to enter information when they see a patient with symptoms of one of 8 priority diseases or conditions. These are acute watery diarrhoea, acute bloody diarrhoea, cholera, measles, acute flaccid paralysis (which could indicate polio), fever, malaria and jaundice.
This information is sent immediately to a central system, where the data is used to generate real-time reports that enable a rapid response to diseases before they have time to spread……”