Category: Medical/Health Care

The Mafraq Agriculture Department Tuesday carried out a vaccination campaign of livestock in Ruwaished against enterotoxemia, a condition caused by the absorption of a large amount of toxins from the intestines. The campaign aims to protect the health of sheep and goats from enterotoxemia, said the department’s director Ibtihal Khreishah, adding that pastures were assessed and the necessary instructions were given to farmers in the eastern region to curb the spread of infectious diseases resulting from a change in forage mixes and grazing.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Six Palestinians were injured Monday during an Israeli army raid into a refugee camp near Jericho in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. It said troops in military jeeps stormed Aqbat Jaber Camp and fired live rounds and tear gas as they circled the home of two Palestinians, who were previously killed by Israeli forces. Jericho Government Hospital Director Nasser Anani said four people, including a child, arrived at the health facility with gunshot wounds and two were hit by rubber bullets, most of them in the lower limbs.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Three Israeli soldiers were injured in a shooting in the town of Huwara, south of Nablus, in the northern West Bank. One injury was described as serious and the other two injuries were moderate, according to the Israeli TV channel KAN. Shoots were fired from a speeding car at the occupation soldiers stationed in Huwara, and wounded a number of soldiers, according to Israeli TV channel. It added that three soldiers were injured in the shooting and were transferred to Belinson Hospital in Petah Tikva for treatment. Large numbers of the occupation forces rushed into the scene and closed the area and began searches for the shooter.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Amman: The Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Union (EU) Monday held a panel discussion on drafting the health sector’s financing strategy and results of the national health accounts (NHA) team for the years 2018-2019.

Jordan’s health spending in 2019 was JD2.2 billion, accounting for 7.1 percent of the gross domestic product, said Secretary-General of the Ministry for Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases Raed Shboul, adding that the per capita share was JD212.

He commended the efforts of the team of NHA, which is a systematic, comprehensive and consistent monitoring tool of resource flows in a country’s health system.

The ministry, the EU and the WHO are currently working on a health financing strategy to provide affordable health services for the public, he added.

WHO representative in Jordan Jamela Al-Raiby said the NHA outcomes will play a key part in drawing up the financing health strategy.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Kahramanmaras: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Safadi on Thursday toured a Jordanian military field hospital in Kahramanmaras, Turkiye, and reiterated Jordan’s commitment to aiding survivors of the devastating earthquake that hit Turkiye and Syria, killing and injuring thousands of people.

Checking on the hospital’s medical services, Safadi voiced His Majesty King Abdullah II’s pride in the hospital’s crucial humanitarian role in assisting the Turkish people in the ordeal they are going through as a result of the earthquake.

The hospital houses a medical staff of 110 doctors, nurses, helping professionals, and technical and administrative staff, as well as outpatient clinics, operation and resuscitation rooms, radiology departments, laboratories, intensive care units, and a sterilization department.

The Jordan News Agency (Petra) documented large numbers of injured people receiving treatment in the hospital. Several patients expressed their appreciation for Jordan for relieving Turkish hospitals as the country’s health system has been under pressure for more than a week.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Baghdad, Jordan covers 10 percent of the Iraqi market’s need for medicines, representative of the medical industries and medical supplies sector at the Jordan Chamber of Industry, Fadi Al-Atrash, said on Thursday.

On the sidelines of a visit by a private sector delegation to Iraq, Al-Atrash noted that pharmaceuticals are among the most prominent Jordanian exports to the Iraqi market, including pills, capsules, liquid medicines, ointments, drops, sprays, and intravenous injections, with an amount of nearly $100 million in 2022.

“Iraq is one of the first regional countries to open its markets to Jordanian medicine,” he added, pointing to the cooperation between the Jordan Food and Drug Administration and the Iraqi Ministry of Health to organize workshops and hold joint scientific courses.

Al-Atrash voiced hope for continued trade cooperation between Jordan and Iraq, accelerating the registration of Jordanian medicine in the Iraqi market, and facilitating the flow of land and air freight between the two countries.

Source: Jordan News Agency

The main emergency room at the Ministry of Local Administration dealt with 293 accidents in municipalities and joint service councils since Monday until Tuesday evening.

The incidents included 64 rainwater poring into citizens’ homes, representing 24 percent of the number of accidents recorded on the system, 44 blockage accidents in rainwater drainage networks, representing 15 percent of the number of recorded accidents, and 42 incidents of high rain water level, representing 14.3 percent of the number of accidents, 27 rock and dust collapses due to rain, representing about 9 percent of the number of recorded accidents, and 23 tree fall accidents, about 8 percent of the accidents recorded on the emergency system.

Source: Jordan News Agency

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday tested positive for COVID-19, reportedly suffering mild cold symptoms.

Scholz’s office said he had immediately gone into isolation, with public appointments for the week canceled, according to DW.

German Government spokesperson, Steffen Hebestreit said the 64-year-old chancellor intended to conduct internal appointments virtually.

Among the meetings that Scholz is set to attend remotely is a meeting of state premiers, Hebestreit said.

Germany’s Interior Minister Nancy Faeser on Monday said she had also tested positive for the first time since the start of the pandemic.

Source: Jordan News Agency

The Canadian government said it’s dropping all COVID-19 measures at borders on Saturday, meaning travellers will no longer need to provide proof of vaccination when entering Canada or wear masks on planes and trains.

Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said on Monday that the decision is not a sign Canada is out of the pandemic, but said the government’s data showed the importation of new variants was no longer having an effect on the evolution of the virus in country, according to CBC news.

Source: Jordan News Agency