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Two planes carrying the patients, many of them children, landed at Ankara airport shortly after 00:30 local time (21:30 GMT).
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Despite Israel claiming it would provide safe passage for patients in Gaza's besieged hospitals, patients are out in the streets without any form of care after being forcibly evacuated.
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WHO said that as casualties continue to increase in Gaza because of intensified fighting, 'intense overcrowding and disrupted health, water, and sanitation systems pose an added danger: the rapid spread of infectious diseases'.
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The Palestinian Authority's health ministry said in a report on Friday that 16 out of 35 hospitals in besieged Gaza had shut down due to Israeli bombing or fuel shortages.
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The World Health Organisation has reported that 101 health workers were among the over 4,333 people who had so far been confirmed dead.
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Pakistan launched its second nationwide anti-polio campaign of the year to inoculate tens of millions of children.
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With the new Covid-19 variant Pirola spreading to at least eight countries, The New Arab looks at whether the variant has yet reached the Middle East and North Africa.
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Low immunisation rates and rising malnutrition – both exacerbated by the nine years of shattering war in the country – are playing a major role in the apparent rise in measles cases, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) have said.
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The WHO on Monday flagged a batch of contaminated common cold syrup in Iraq manufactured by an Indian company.
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Cancer patients suffering in northwestern Syria will once again be permitted entry into neighbouring Turkey to receive treatment following a months-long ban.