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Chinese Woman With 2 Reproductive Systems Becomes 'Mother' And 'Father'
Her remarkable story has sparked widespread fascination and discussion across Chinese social media platforms.
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UP Government Hospital Worker Caught Taking Bribe, Probe Ordered
Health Department officials here have ordered a probe after a video showing a hospital worker allegedly taking a bribe on the pretext of an eye operation made rounds on social media, officials said on Sunday.
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'Together, We Can Win': Twitter Chatter Upbeat As India Gets Vaccinated
Social media chatter has been picking up steadily since morning today when India's massive vaccination programme against COVID-19 started with a sanitation worker getting the first shot of the two-dose vaccine. The country is prioritising nurses, doctors and other frontline medical staff since they run the highest risk of getting infected.
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UK Extends Residency Scheme To All COVID-19 Overseas Healthcare Victims
The British government has extended a COVID-19 Bereavement Scheme, which grants permanent UK residency to the family members of overseas medics who die after contracting the coronavirus, to all healthcare staff and social care workers.
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Watch: Rajasthan Doctors Sing To Keep Spirits High Amid COVID-19 Fight
A video that shows a team of health workers from Rajasthan's Bhilwara - about 270 km away from state capital Jaipur - singing together, is being widely circulated on social media as people praise the spirit of medical professionals who are on the frontline in fight against coronavirus or COVID-19.
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Social Distancing A Luxury For Workers In India On $2 A Day
The quandary facing India's informal workforce of 450 million people is one of the starkest examples of how social inequality threatens to undermine virus containment efforts around the world. From undocumented minimum-wage workers in the world's richest postcodes to job-seekers flooding into swelling metropolises, the urban poor often have limited...
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Subhash Bhamre - A Cancer Surgeon, Avid Social Worker, Now Minister
From an oncologist-surgeon to a member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers, the journey has been a unique one for Subhash Bhamre, who was elected from Dhule parliamentary constituency in Maharashtra.
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Medical Council Needs To Go, Say Doctors And Activists
Doctors and social workers from across India have joined hands to sound an alarm over medical education, seeking an overhaul of the Medical Council of India, the regulator plagued by serious corruption charges.
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'I Just Got Shot!' US Boy Posts Bloody Selfie Online
A 20-year-old US student who was shot in the shoulder decided to post a smiling selfie with the bleeding gunshot wound on social media rather than calling for medical help.
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US couple sues over adopted son's sex-assignment surgery
A South Carolina couple sued doctors and state social workers on Tuesday for subjecting a 16-month-old child born with both male and female genitalia to what they say was medically unnecessary and irreversible sex-assignment surgery while the toddler was in foster care.
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Man posing as social worker molests patient's wife
She was wandering on the premises of the civic-run KEM hospital, worried and flustered about her husband, who was undergoing treatment from an accident in one of the wards. Soon, a man accosted her, and introducing himself as a medical social worker (MSW) attached to the hospital, offered to get some monetary assistance for her husband's treatment....
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Mumbai hospital reunites Howrah boy with family
He had fled his Howrah home 13 months ago to explore the City of Dreams, but the 14-year-old's Mumbai trip turned into a nightmare when he fell off a local train and had to have his left leg amputated. Back home in Howrah, Afroz Shaikh's family had almost lost hopes of his return, but when his maternal uncle and aunt saw their beloved nephew return...
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Chinese Woman With 2 Reproductive Systems Becomes 'Mother' And 'Father'
Her remarkable story has sparked widespread fascination and discussion across Chinese social media platforms.
-
UP Government Hospital Worker Caught Taking Bribe, Probe Ordered
Health Department officials here have ordered a probe after a video showing a hospital worker allegedly taking a bribe on the pretext of an eye operation made rounds on social media, officials said on Sunday.
-
'Together, We Can Win': Twitter Chatter Upbeat As India Gets Vaccinated
Social media chatter has been picking up steadily since morning today when India's massive vaccination programme against COVID-19 started with a sanitation worker getting the first shot of the two-dose vaccine. The country is prioritising nurses, doctors and other frontline medical staff since they run the highest risk of getting infected.
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UK Extends Residency Scheme To All COVID-19 Overseas Healthcare Victims
The British government has extended a COVID-19 Bereavement Scheme, which grants permanent UK residency to the family members of overseas medics who die after contracting the coronavirus, to all healthcare staff and social care workers.
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Watch: Rajasthan Doctors Sing To Keep Spirits High Amid COVID-19 Fight
A video that shows a team of health workers from Rajasthan's Bhilwara - about 270 km away from state capital Jaipur - singing together, is being widely circulated on social media as people praise the spirit of medical professionals who are on the frontline in fight against coronavirus or COVID-19.
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Social Distancing A Luxury For Workers In India On $2 A Day
The quandary facing India's informal workforce of 450 million people is one of the starkest examples of how social inequality threatens to undermine virus containment efforts around the world. From undocumented minimum-wage workers in the world's richest postcodes to job-seekers flooding into swelling metropolises, the urban poor often have limited...
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Subhash Bhamre - A Cancer Surgeon, Avid Social Worker, Now Minister
From an oncologist-surgeon to a member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers, the journey has been a unique one for Subhash Bhamre, who was elected from Dhule parliamentary constituency in Maharashtra.
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Medical Council Needs To Go, Say Doctors And Activists
Doctors and social workers from across India have joined hands to sound an alarm over medical education, seeking an overhaul of the Medical Council of India, the regulator plagued by serious corruption charges.
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'I Just Got Shot!' US Boy Posts Bloody Selfie Online
A 20-year-old US student who was shot in the shoulder decided to post a smiling selfie with the bleeding gunshot wound on social media rather than calling for medical help.
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US couple sues over adopted son's sex-assignment surgery
A South Carolina couple sued doctors and state social workers on Tuesday for subjecting a 16-month-old child born with both male and female genitalia to what they say was medically unnecessary and irreversible sex-assignment surgery while the toddler was in foster care.
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Man posing as social worker molests patient's wife
She was wandering on the premises of the civic-run KEM hospital, worried and flustered about her husband, who was undergoing treatment from an accident in one of the wards. Soon, a man accosted her, and introducing himself as a medical social worker (MSW) attached to the hospital, offered to get some monetary assistance for her husband's treatment....
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Mumbai hospital reunites Howrah boy with family
He had fled his Howrah home 13 months ago to explore the City of Dreams, but the 14-year-old's Mumbai trip turned into a nightmare when he fell off a local train and had to have his left leg amputated. Back home in Howrah, Afroz Shaikh's family had almost lost hopes of his return, but when his maternal uncle and aunt saw their beloved nephew return...
