DUBAI: Kuwait women are hopeful that as they are being allowed to work as paramedics in the country the overall status of women in the small Gulf country will improve. Kuwait saw its first female unit graduate on Saturday. "This is a momentous day for all Kuwaitis, women and men, because it shows that we can improve as a country," 21-year-old university student Isra told Bikyanews.com. She hopes to follow i ...

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia's ministry of health has reported that two more people have died from novel coronavirus, a new strain of the virus similar to the one that caused SARS, in an outbreak in al-Ahsa region of the country. The deputy health minister for public health said on Sunday that they have confirmed the recent deaths. Ziad Memish said that in the latest cluster of infections, 15 cases had been confirme ...

CAPE TOWN: A recent survey by ZNFPC revealed that the supply of female condoms from the national distribution centre in the first quarter of 2013 was 1 047 832 pieces compared to 847 008 pieces the same period last year. ZNFPC marketing and communications manager Simion Chikwizo told The Standard last week that the home meeting concept involved people in the same community helping to distribute the condoms ...

DUBAI: A Philippines woman was reportedly "clinically dead" at a hospital in Kuwait. However, miraculously she returned to the living after giving birth to a baby boy at a local hospital in what doctors are describing as "spectacular." "We could have not written this any better for a movie," said a hospital director when Bikyanews.com called the al-Farwaniya Hospital on Sunday. "The woman and her baby are n ...

ADDIS ABABA: IOM and Puntland’s Ministry of Health this week jointly opened a mobile health clinic that will cater for some 10,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) and their surrounding host communities in Garowe, the capital of Puntland, State of Somalia. The mobile clinic, funded by Japan, will offer essential primary health care services, including routine consultations and free medicines for IDPs and ...

DUBAI: The 9th International Zayed Charity Marathon, which begins on Saturday in New York City aims to raise awareness concerning kidney disease and increase funding for lifesaving programs, United Arab Emirates officials said. Local media hailed the Saturday event as "a further enhancement to the UAE's global humanitarian stature and a further testament to the UAE leadership's interest in providing aid to ...

Singapore is the safest place to be born and the best place to be a mother in Asia, beating competitors Japan, South Korea and Malaysia -- according to children's aid agency Save the Children. Singapore has the lowest first-day mortality rate in Asia, making it the safest place in the region to be born. The children's aid agency on Tuesday launched its 14th annual State of the World's Mothers report with th ...

RIYADH: The Saudi Arabia health ministry has reported 13 cases in a recent outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus that has emerged from the Gulf and spread as far as Britain and France, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, and 7 of those have died. Saudi Arabia has reported 23 confirmed cases in total, Qatar two, Jordan two, Britain two and the United Arab Emirates one, the WHO said. Alth ...

India tops the list of countries in the world with the most first-day deaths at 309,300 annually, according to “State of the World’s Mothers 2013” report released on May seven by London (UK) headquartered Save the Children International. Nigeria trails behind India at second position in the world with only 89,700 first-day deaths. India’s share of global first-day deaths is 29%. In India, “economic growth h ...

The planet’s social and economic inequalities must be addressed if women and children are to “survive and thrive,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged today, calling for accelerated action on achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ahead of the 2015 deadline. In remarks delivered to a special event held by the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and titled Meeting the Challenges o ...