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Underground Wartime Medical Zone - Israel

A medical staff member works at an underground wartime medical zone at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, June 23, 2025. A wartime medical zone has been established at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan of Israel, amid ongoing missile attacks during the Iran-Israel conflict. The hospital has opened six reinforced units, including five underground and one above-ground facility, designed to offer up to 700 beds and relocate patients and departments from unfortified areas. Photo by Xinhua/Chen Junqing/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Underground Wartime Medical Zone - Israel

Medical staff work at an underground wartime medical zone at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, June 23, 2025. A wartime medical zone has been established at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan of Israel, amid ongoing missile attacks during the Iran-Israel conflict. The hospital has opened six reinforced units, including five underground and one above-ground facility, designed to offer up to 700 beds and relocate patients and departments from unfortified areas. Photo by Xinhua/Chen Junqing/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Underground Wartime Medical Zone - Israel

A medical staff member works at an underground wartime medical zone at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, June 23, 2025. A wartime medical zone has been established at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan of Israel, amid ongoing missile attacks during the Iran-Israel conflict. The hospital has opened six reinforced units, including five underground and one above-ground facility, designed to offer up to 700 beds and relocate patients and departments from unfortified areas. Photo by Xinhua/Chen Junqing/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Underground Wartime Medical Zone - Israel

This photo taken on June 23, 2025 shows an underground wartime medical zone at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel. A wartime medical zone has been established at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan of Israel, amid ongoing missile attacks during the Iran-Israel conflict. The hospital has opened six reinforced units, including five underground and one above-ground facility, designed to offer up to 700 beds and relocate patients and departments from unfortified areas. Photo by Xinhua/Chen Junqing/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Underground Wartime Medical Zone - Israel

A medical staff member works at an underground wartime medical zone at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, June 23, 2025. A wartime medical zone has been established at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan of Israel, amid ongoing missile attacks during the Iran-Israel conflict. The hospital has opened six reinforced units, including five underground and one above-ground facility, designed to offer up to 700 beds and relocate patients and departments from unfortified areas. Photo by Xinhua/Chen Junqing/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Underground Wartime Medical Zone - Israel

This photo taken on June 23, 2025 shows an underground wartime medical zone at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel. A wartime medical zone has been established at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan of Israel, amid ongoing missile attacks during the Iran-Israel conflict. The hospital has opened six reinforced units, including five underground and one above-ground facility, designed to offer up to 700 beds and relocate patients and departments from unfortified areas. Photo by Xinhua/Chen Junqing/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Underground Wartime Medical Zone - Israel

Medical staff work at an underground wartime medical zone at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, June 23, 2025. A wartime medical zone has been established at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan of Israel, amid ongoing missile attacks during the Iran-Israel conflict. The hospital has opened six reinforced units, including five underground and one above-ground facility, designed to offer up to 700 beds and relocate patients and departments from unfortified areas. Photo by Xinhua/Chen Junqing/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Underground Wartime Medical Zone - Israel

This photo taken on June 23, 2025 shows an underground wartime medical zone at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel. A wartime medical zone has been established at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan of Israel, amid ongoing missile attacks during the Iran-Israel conflict. The hospital has opened six reinforced units, including five underground and one above-ground facility, designed to offer up to 700 beds and relocate patients and departments from unfortified areas. Photo by Xinhua/Chen Junqing/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Underground Wartime Medical Zone - Israel

Medical staff work at an underground wartime medical zone at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, June 23, 2025. A wartime medical zone has been established at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan of Israel, amid ongoing missile attacks during the Iran-Israel conflict. The hospital has opened six reinforced units, including five underground and one above-ground facility, designed to offer up to 700 beds and relocate patients and departments from unfortified areas. Photo by Xinhua/Chen Junqing/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Underground Wartime Medical Zone - Israel

Medical staff work at an underground wartime medical zone at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, June 23, 2025. A wartime medical zone has been established at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan of Israel, amid ongoing missile attacks during the Iran-Israel conflict. The hospital has opened six reinforced units, including five underground and one above-ground facility, designed to offer up to 700 beds and relocate patients and departments from unfortified areas. Photo by Xinhua/Chen Junqing/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Six Killed In Bombing Of Al-Sahaba Market - Gaza

Injured patients fill the crowded corridors of Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital after an Israeli airstrike on Al-Sahaba Street in Gaza City, Gaza, on October 29, 2024. Wounded Palestinians, victims of the assault on the Al-Sahaba market, arrived with various injuries, highlighting the heavy toll of the conflict. The Palestinian Sanad agency reported from medical sources that six Palestinians died and 30 civilians were injured in the Israeli bombing that targeted the Al-Sahaba market in Gaza City. Photo by Abood Abusalama/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Six Killed In Bombing Of Al-Sahaba Market - Gaza

Injured patients fill Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital after an Israeli airstrike on Al-Sahaba Street in Gaza City, Gaza, on October 29, 2024. Wounded Palestinians, victims of the assault on the Al-Sahaba market, arrived with various injuries, highlighting the heavy toll of the conflict. The Palestinian Sanad agency reported from medical sources that six Palestinians died and 30 civilians were injured in the Israeli bombing that targeted the Al-Sahaba market in Gaza City. Photo by Abood Abusalama/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Six Killed In Bombing Of Al-Sahaba Market - Gaza

Injured patients fill Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital after an Israeli airstrike on Al-Sahaba Street in Gaza City, Gaza, on October 29, 2024. Wounded Palestinians, victims of the assault on the Al-Sahaba market, arrived with various injuries, highlighting the heavy toll of the conflict. The Palestinian Sanad agency reported from medical sources that six Palestinians died and 30 civilians were injured in the Israeli bombing that targeted the Al-Sahaba market in Gaza City. Photo by Abood Abusalama/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Six Killed In Bombing Of Al-Sahaba Market - Gaza

Injured patients fill Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital after an Israeli airstrike on Al-Sahaba Street in Gaza City, Gaza, on October 29, 2024. Wounded Palestinians, victims of the assault on the Al-Sahaba market, arrived with various injuries, highlighting the heavy toll of the conflict. The Palestinian Sanad agency reported from medical sources that six Palestinians died and 30 civilians were injured in the Israeli bombing that targeted the Al-Sahaba market in Gaza City. Photo by Abood Abusalama/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Israel withdraws forces from Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital after 2-week raid: army

STORY: Israel withdraws forces from Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital after 2-week raid: army SHOOTING TIME: April 1, 2024 DATELINE: April 1, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:01 LOCATION: GAZA, Palestine CATEGORY: MILITARY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza STORYLINE: Israel's army announced on Monday it withdrew its forces from Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, concluding a two-week-long raid on the enclave's largest medical center. The medical complex, located in the hunger-stricken northern Gaza, became a refuge for thousands of patients and displaced Palestinians, and was targeted by Israeli tanks and airstrikes. It was the second major Israeli raid on the hospital since the beginning of Israel's almost six-month-long onslaught in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces released a statement saying that during the raid, the troops killed militants "in close-quarters encounters, located numerous weapons and intelligence documents throughout the hospital." According to World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Ad

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Health entrusted, Chinese doctors harvest friendship worldwide

STORY: Health entrusted, Chinese doctors harvest friendship worldwide SHOOTING TIME: File DATELINE: Dec. 4, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:31 LOCATION: Addis Ababa/Port Moresby CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of dispatched Chinese medical personnel 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Amharic): GEZAHAGN TILAHUN, Resident of Ethiopia 3. various of dispatched Chinese medical personnel 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): JOSEPHINE INAPI, Resident of Papua New Guinea 5. various of dispatched Chinese medical personnel 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): DR. JAMES, Urologist at the Port Moresby General Hospital STORYLINE: Over the past six decades, China has dispatched over 30,000 medical personnel to 76 countries and regions across the world, providing medical services to nearly 300 million patients. This year marks the 60th anniversary since China began to send its first medical team to aid Algeria in 1963. Since then, countless heartfelt stories about Chinese medical personnel have surfaced. Ethiopian resident Gezahegn Tilahun endured a "mysterious il

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BANGLADESH-DHAKA-DENGUE

(231120) -- DHAKA, Nov. 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Patients infected with dengue receive treatment at a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Nov. 20, 2023. Bangladesh reported 1,291 new dengue cases and six more deaths on Sunday, bringing the tally to 301,225 and the death toll to 1,549 since January this year, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said. The deaths include 201 so far this month. (Xinhua)

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BANGLADESH-DHAKA-DENGUE

(231120) -- DHAKA, Nov. 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Patients infected with dengue receive treatment at a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Nov. 20, 2023. Bangladesh reported 1,291 new dengue cases and six more deaths on Sunday, bringing the tally to 301,225 and the death toll to 1,549 since January this year, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said. The deaths include 201 so far this month. (Xinhua)

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BANGLADESH-DHAKA-DENGUE

(231120) -- DHAKA, Nov. 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Patients infected with dengue receive treatment at a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Nov. 20, 2023. Bangladesh reported 1,291 new dengue cases and six more deaths on Sunday, bringing the tally to 301,225 and the death toll to 1,549 since January this year, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said. The deaths include 201 so far this month. (Xinhua)

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BANGLADESH-DHAKA-DENGUE

(231120) -- DHAKA, Nov. 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Patients infected with dengue receive treatment at a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Nov. 20, 2023. Bangladesh reported 1,291 new dengue cases and six more deaths on Sunday, bringing the tally to 301,225 and the death toll to 1,549 since January this year, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said. The deaths include 201 so far this month. (Xinhua)

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BANGLADESH-DHAKA-DENGUE

(231120) -- DHAKA, Nov. 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Patients infected with dengue receive treatment at a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Nov. 20, 2023. Bangladesh reported 1,291 new dengue cases and six more deaths on Sunday, bringing the tally to 301,225 and the death toll to 1,549 since January this year, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said. The deaths include 201 so far this month. (Xinhua)

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BENIN-COTONOU-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-FREE CATARACT PROJECT

(231115) -- COTONOU, Nov. 15, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Ambassador to Benin Peng Jingtao (R) and Beninese Health Minister Benjamin Hounkpatin attend the launching ceremony of project "Marche vers la lumière" at Benin Ministry of Health in Cotonou, Benin, Nov. 14, 2023. A Chinese medical team of ophthalmologists from China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region launched a project to provide free cataract surgeries in Benin on Tuesday. The project, launched in the country's southern city of Cotonou, is one of the outcomes of Beninese President Patrice Athanase Guillaume Talon's visit to China in September and aims to implement the bilateral cooperation documents signed between the two countries in health care. Under the project named "Marche vers la lumière" (Walk towards Light), the six-member Chinese ophthalmology medical team will carry out free surgeries for 200 cataract patients in the Mono-Couffo Departmental Hospital Center in Benin's southwestern city of Lokossa. (Photo by Seraphin Zounyekpe/Xinhua)

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BENIN-COTONOU-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-FREE CATARACT PROJECT

(231115) -- COTONOU, Nov. 15, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Ambassador to Benin Peng Jingtao (2nd L, front) visits patients with cataract at a hospital in Lokossa, Benin, Nov. 14, 2023. A Chinese medical team of ophthalmologists from China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region launched a project to provide free cataract surgeries in Benin on Tuesday. The project, launched in the country's southern city of Cotonou, is one of the outcomes of Beninese President Patrice Athanase Guillaume Talon's visit to China in September and aims to implement the bilateral cooperation documents signed between the two countries in health care. Under the project named "Marche vers la lumière" (Walk towards Light), the six-member Chinese ophthalmology medical team will carry out free surgeries for 200 cataract patients in the Mono-Couffo Departmental Hospital Center in Benin's southwestern city of Lokossa. (Photo by Seraphin Zounyekpe/Xinhua)

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Chinese doctors help enhance wellbeing for Solomon Islands people

STORY: Chinese doctors help enhance wellbeing for Solomon Islands people DATELINE: July 10, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:03 LOCATION: Honiara CATEGORY: HEALTH/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of local residents at the hospital 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): REX FOUKONA, Local resident 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): MARTIN POPOT, Local resident 4. various of the Solomon Islands 5. various of the hospital 6. various of George Wilson Malefoasi 7. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): WILSON MALEFOASI, CEO of National Referral Hospital 8. various of the Chinese medical team treating patients 9. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): WILSON MALEFOASI, CEO of National Referral Hospital 10. various of the Chinese medical team treating patients STORYLINE: Chinese medical team's traditional acupuncture therapy has been gaining popularity in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands, with its effect winning widespread recognition from local residents. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): REX FOUKONA, Local resident "I have visited the acupuncture treatment for six days now. Today

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Six decades of caring: stories of Chinese medical team in Algeria

STORY: Six decades of caring: stories of Chinese medical team in Algeria DATELINE: April 8, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:15 LOCATION: Algiers CATEGORY: HEALTH/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Chinese medical team 2. various of Li Hongling talking to medical staff and patients 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LI HONGLING, Doctor of the 27th Chinese medical team dispatched to Algeria 4. various of Chinese doctor Li Hongling doing surgical treatment 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): LI HONGLING, Doctor of the 27th Chinese medical team dispatched to Algeria 6. various of Chinese doctor Tu Dachun treating patients 7. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): TU DACHUN, Doctor of Chinese medical teams dispatched to Algeria 8. various of Chinese doctor Yang Yi treating patients 9. SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): YANG YI , Doctor of the 27th Chinese medical team dispatched to Algeria 10. SOUNDBITE 5 (Arabic): HABBICHE BOUABDELLAH, Head of the Ain Defla public hospital STORYLINE: This year marked the 60th anniversary since China sent its first medical aid team ove

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3 killed in separate Istanbul fires

STORY: 3 killed in separate Istanbul fires DATELINE: March 25, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:18 LOCATION: ISTANBUL, Türkiye CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the site of the fire STORYLINE: Three people were killed in two fires that broke out in Istanbul early Friday morning, the Istanbul governor's office said in a statement. The first blaze took place at the surgical bloc of the Sultan Abdulhamit Han Training and Research Hospital at 2:50 a.m. local time (2350 GMT) in the Uskudar district on Istanbul's Asian side, according to the statement. One patient in intensive care was killed, while 109 patients were evacuated to nearby hospitals, it said, adding that four medical and six firefighting personnel were also injured while fighting the blaze. Another fire broke out at a seven-storey hotel at 7.30 a.m. local time in the Pendik district on the city's Asian side. Two people were killed, and two others were injured in the fire, according to the statement. Investigations are underway to find the

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Western negative reports on China's COVID-19 response "ridiculous": American expat

STORY: Western negative reports on China's COVID-19 response "ridiculous": American expat DATELINE: Jan. 6, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:44 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of Beijing 2. various of China 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): DYLAN AUSTIN WALKER, American living in China 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): DYLAN AUSTIN WALKER, American living in China STORYLINE: An American young expat who has lived in China for six years said that China's fine-tuning of its COVID-19 response comes at a better time for the country. China has optimized its epidemic response, shifting the focus from stemming infection to caring for infected patients and preventing severe cases. Dylan Austin Walker, who has experienced various stages of China's COVID-19 policies, shares his thoughts. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): DYLAN AUSTIN WALKER, American living in China "Especially after the past few weeks of optimizing the COVID-19 policy in the restrictions, I feel like it's gotten of course a lot more convenient. Beijing is getting

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Norovirus kills 6 patients at Miyazaki hospital

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Shigekazu Miyaji (C), head of the Shunkokai medical association, bows with others at a press conference at the Miyazaki prefectural hall in the city of Miyazaki on Dec. 23, 2012. Six patients have died of gastroenteritis after a norovirus outbreak at Shunkokaihigashi Hospital in Nichinan, Miyazaki Prefecture, hospital officials said the same day.

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Norovirus kills 6 patients at Miyazaki hospital

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 23, 2012, shows Shunkokaihigashi Hospital in Nichinan, Miyazaki Prefecture. Six patients have died of gastroenteritis after a norovirus outbreak at the hospital, hospital officials said the same day.

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Carmakers sound out asthma patients on settlement over pollution

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs and their supporters urge carmakers to pay more to settle their damages suit during a rally held in front of the Tokyo Head Office building of Toyota Motor Corp., one of the seven automakers, on June 4. Toyota and six makers of diesel cars have informally offered to settle with asthma patients in Tokyo, but the plaintiffs say they are not ready to accept the payments because the amount offered is too small.

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Indonesia: child deaths from acute kidney injury rise to 133

STORY: Indonesia: child deaths from acute kidney injury rise to 133 DATELINE: Oct. 22, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:42 LOCATION: Jakarta CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of press conference and data 2. various of medicine warehouse 3. various of children in schools and hospitals 4. various of pharmacy STORYLINE: Indonesia's Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin on Friday said the number of children who had died from acute kidney injury rose to 133 from the previously reported 99. Sadikin said the deaths were among a total of 241 cases reported in 22 provinces since January, adding that most patients were children under the age of six. The minister said laboratory tests concluded that there were compounds of diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol in the children's blood. Authorities have found 102 types of syrup the children were consuming at home, details of which will be announced soon. Meanwhile, on Thursday, Indonesia's food and drug regulatory agency BPOM announced five types of syrups produced by three

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Lao health ministry reports more dengue fever cases

STORY: Lao health ministry reports more dengue fever cases DATELINE: Oct. 21, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:34 LOCATION: Vientiane CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Ministry of Health Office Building 2. various of spraying mosquito repellents 3. various of the hospital STORYLINE: The number of dengue fever cases keeps on growing in Laos and one new death was reported, the Lao Health Ministry said here on Wednesday. In the last 24 hours, the Lao Ministry of Health reported 128 new confirmed cases of dengue fever and one new death from the disease, according to a report issued by the Center of Information and Education for Health under the Lao Ministry of Health on Wednesday. As of Wednesday, a total of 28,658 people has been diagnosed with dengue fever and 22 deaths were recorded. The highest number of dengue patients were reported in Lao capital Vientiane at 14,351, while 4,105 cases were reported at Luang Namtha, and 1,549 cases were reported in Attapeu province. The 22 deaths included six each in Lao

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Delhi reports first woman monkeypox case, India's total rises to 9

STORY: Delhi reports first woman monkeypox case, India's total rises to 9 DATELINE: Aug. 5, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:36 LOCATION: New Delhi CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of street view in India STORYLINE: A woman of foreign origin tested positive for monkeypox in New Delhi on Wednesday evening, confirmed a health department official on Thursday. It's the first woman monkeypox case in the country, overall fourth in Delhi and ninth in the country. So far, five cases have been reported from Kerala, including one death, and four cases from Delhi. The first case reported in the country (from Kerala) on July 14 fully recovered last weekend and was discharged from hospital. Only a couple of days ago, the Delhi government announced the setting up of 70 isolation rooms across six hospitals in the national capital for monkeypox patients or suspect cases. The Kerala government has also swung into action to contain the spread of the viral disease. As a precautionary measure, thermal scanning is being

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1st commercial flight in years takes off from Yemen's Houthi-held capital

STORY: 1st commercial flight in years takes off from Yemen's Houthi-held capital DATELINE: May 17, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:21 LOCATION: Sanaa CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of a plane of the Yemenia Airlines arriving at the Sanaa International Airport to pick up passengers 2. various of passengers entering the departure building of the airport 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): KHALED AL-SHAYEF, Manager of Sanaa International Airport 4. various of passengers in Sanaa airport 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): NASR AL-SHAHRI, Yemeni passenger 6. various of the Sanaa airport 7. various of airport in Jordan STORYLINE: The first commercial flight in six years took off on Monday from Sanaa, Yemen's capital under the control of the Houthi rebels, as an essential part of the ongoing truce between the Yemeni warring sides. The Yemenia Airways flight carried 151 passengers, many of whom are patients who seek urgent medical treatment in Jordan. Earlier, the Yemeni national carrier's plane arrived in Sanaa from the southern port ci

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Emergency hemodialysis beds offer lifeline to patients in Shanghai

STORY: Emergency hemodialysis beds offer lifeline to patients in Shanghai DATELINE: April 27, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:44 LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: various of patients receiving hemodialysis treatmentSOUNDBITE (Chinese): XU CHENGGANG, Third Affiliated Hospital of Naval Medical University STORYLINE: Twenty-six emergency hemodialysis sites have been set up at 18 hospitals across Shanghai, which has been hit hard by the latest COVID-19 resurgence. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): XU CHENGGANG, Third Affiliated Hospital of Naval Medical University "A considerable number of hemodialysis patients live in communities under close-off management, and they are close contacts and secondary close contacts of previously reported confirmed cases and asymptomatic ones. Therefore, it is not appropriate for them to go to hospitals' hemodialysis rooms for treatment. However, their lives would be at risk if they don't receive treatment. So we set up the emergency rooms in 72 hours and these patients have a re

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Female donor's organs to be transplanted to 7

OSAKA, Japan - A patient is brought to an operation room at Osaka University Hospital in western Japan on March 29 in Japan's first lung transplants from a brain-dead donor under the 1997 Organ Transplant Law. Organs extracted from a female patient confirmed legally brain-dead the previous day at a Tokyo hospital will be transplanted to seven patients, including the Osaka patient, at six medical institutions. This photo was provided by Osaka University Hospital.

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Japanese businesses backing cancer sufferers' wish to work

Seven people pose for a photo in Tokyo in October 2017 after inaugurating a group who aim to improve working environments for cancer patients. The group was founded by Lifenet Insurance Co. President Daisuke Iwase and six representatives of entities supporting cancer patients. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Carmakers sound out asthma patients on settlement over pollution

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs and their supporters urge carmakers to pay more to settle their damages suit during a rally held in front of the Tokyo Head Office building of Toyota Motor Corp., one of the seven automakers, on June 4. Toyota and six makers of diesel cars have informally offered to settle with asthma patients in Tokyo, but the plaintiffs say they are not ready to accept the payments because the amount offered is too small. (Kyodo)

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funeral of Petr Sorm, one of seven victims of shooting in the Ostrava Teaching Hospital

Funeral of Petr Sorm, one of seven victims of shooting in the Ostrava Teaching Hospital, was held on December 19, 2019, in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Sorm was a member of Czech Prison Service. On December 10, 2019, after 07:00, shooter opened fire without any warning in the waiting room of the hospital's outpatient traumatology ward, shooting patients in the head and chest at close range. After killing six people and wounding three, he left the hospital, and committed suicide in a nearby village some three hours later. The woman whom a raging shooter wounded in the hospital died on December 12, 2019, the number of victims killed by the 42-year-old attacker thus rising to seven. (CTK Photo/Jaroslav Ozana)

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funeral of Petr Sorm, one of seven victims of shooting in the Ostrava Teaching Hospital

Funeral of Petr Sorm, one of seven victims of shooting in the Ostrava Teaching Hospital, was held on December 19, 2019, in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Sorm was a member of Czech Prison Service. On December 10, 2019, after 07:00, shooter opened fire without any warning in the waiting room of the hospital's outpatient traumatology ward, shooting patients in the head and chest at close range. After killing six people and wounding three, he left the hospital, and committed suicide in a nearby village some three hours later. The woman whom a raging shooter wounded in the hospital died on December 12, 2019, the number of victims killed by the 42-year-old attacker thus rising to seven. (CTK Photo/Jaroslav Ozana)

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funeral of Petr Sorm, one of seven victims of shooting in the Ostrava Teaching Hospital

Funeral of Petr Sorm, one of seven victims of shooting in the Ostrava Teaching Hospital, was held on December 19, 2019, in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Sorm was a member of Czech Prison Service. On December 10, 2019, after 07:00, shooter opened fire without any warning in the waiting room of the hospital's outpatient traumatology ward, shooting patients in the head and chest at close range. After killing six people and wounding three, he left the hospital, and committed suicide in a nearby village some three hours later. The woman whom a raging shooter wounded in the hospital died on December 12, 2019, the number of victims killed by the 42-year-old attacker thus rising to seven. (CTK Photo/Jaroslav Ozana)

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funeral of Petr Sorm, one of seven victims of shooting in the Ostrava Teaching Hospital

Funeral of Petr Sorm, one of seven victims of shooting in the Ostrava Teaching Hospital, was held on December 19, 2019, in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Sorm was a member of Czech Prison Service. On December 10, 2019, after 07:00, shooter opened fire without any warning in the waiting room of the hospital's outpatient traumatology ward, shooting patients in the head and chest at close range. After killing six people and wounding three, he left the hospital, and committed suicide in a nearby village some three hours later. The woman whom a raging shooter wounded in the hospital died on December 12, 2019, the number of victims killed by the 42-year-old attacker thus rising to seven. (CTK Photo/Jaroslav Ozana)

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funeral of Petr Sorm, one of seven victims of shooting in the Ostrava Teaching Hospital

Funeral of Petr Sorm, one of seven victims of shooting in the Ostrava Teaching Hospital, was held on December 19, 2019, in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Sorm was a member of Czech Prison Service. On December 10, 2019, after 07:00, shooter opened fire without any warning in the waiting room of the hospital's outpatient traumatology ward, shooting patients in the head and chest at close range. After killing six people and wounding three, he left the hospital, and committed suicide in a nearby village some three hours later. The woman whom a raging shooter wounded in the hospital died on December 12, 2019, the number of victims killed by the 42-year-old attacker thus rising to seven. (CTK Photo/Jaroslav Ozana)

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funeral of Petr Sorm, one of seven victims of shooting in the Ostrava Teaching Hospital

Funeral of Petr Sorm, one of seven victims of shooting in the Ostrava Teaching Hospital, was held on December 19, 2019, in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Sorm was a member of Czech Prison Service. On December 10, 2019, after 07:00, shooter opened fire without any warning in the waiting room of the hospital's outpatient traumatology ward, shooting patients in the head and chest at close range. After killing six people and wounding three, he left the hospital, and committed suicide in a nearby village some three hours later. The woman whom a raging shooter wounded in the hospital died on December 12, 2019, the number of victims killed by the 42-year-old attacker thus rising to seven. (CTK Photo/Jaroslav Ozana)

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funeral of Petr Sorm, one of seven victims of shooting in the Ostrava Teaching Hospital

Funeral of Petr Sorm, one of seven victims of shooting in the Ostrava Teaching Hospital, was held on December 19, 2019, in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Sorm was a member of Czech Prison Service. On December 10, 2019, after 07:00, shooter opened fire without any warning in the waiting room of the hospital's outpatient traumatology ward, shooting patients in the head and chest at close range. After killing six people and wounding three, he left the hospital, and committed suicide in a nearby village some three hours later. The woman whom a raging shooter wounded in the hospital died on December 12, 2019, the number of victims killed by the 42-year-old attacker thus rising to seven. (CTK Photo/Jaroslav Ozana)

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funeral of Petr Sorm, one of seven victims of shooting in the Ostrava Teaching Hospital

Funeral of Petr Sorm, one of seven victims of shooting in the Ostrava Teaching Hospital, was held on December 19, 2019, in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Sorm was a member of Czech Prison Service. On December 10, 2019, after 07:00, shooter opened fire without any warning in the waiting room of the hospital's outpatient traumatology ward, shooting patients in the head and chest at close range. After killing six people and wounding three, he left the hospital, and committed suicide in a nearby village some three hours later. The woman whom a raging shooter wounded in the hospital died on December 12, 2019, the number of victims killed by the 42-year-old attacker thus rising to seven. (CTK Photo/Jaroslav Ozana)

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funeral of Petr Sorm, one of seven victims of shooting in the Ostrava Teaching Hospital

Funeral of Petr Sorm, one of seven victims of shooting in the Ostrava Teaching Hospital, was held on December 19, 2019, in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Sorm was a member of Czech Prison Service. On December 10, 2019, after 07:00, shooter opened fire without any warning in the waiting room of the hospital's outpatient traumatology ward, shooting patients in the head and chest at close range. After killing six people and wounding three, he left the hospital, and committed suicide in a nearby village some three hours later. The woman whom a raging shooter wounded in the hospital died on December 12, 2019, the number of victims killed by the 42-year-old attacker thus rising to seven. (CTK Photo/Jaroslav Ozana)

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Andrej Babis

Sirens will sound all over Czech Republic on December 17 to commemorate victims of shooting in Ostrava hospital, PM Andrej Babis (pictured) said in Ostrava, Czech Republic, on December 10, 2019. A 42-year-old man from the vicinity of Opava, north Moravia, shot six people dead and injured another patients in a waiting room of the Ostrava Teaching Hospital's outpatient traumatology ward this morning. (CTK Photo/petr Sznapka)

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Andrej Babis

Sirens will sound all over Czech Republic on December 17 to commemorate victims of shooting in Ostrava hospital, PM Andrej Babis (pictured) said in Ostrava, Czech Republic, on December 10, 2019. A 42-year-old man from the vicinity of Opava, north Moravia, shot six people dead and injured another patients in a waiting room of the Ostrava Teaching Hospital's outpatient traumatology ward this morning. (CTK Photo/petr Sznapka)

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Andrej Babis

Sirens will sound all over Czech Republic on December 17 to commemorate victims of shooting in Ostrava hospital, PM Andrej Babis (pictured) said in Ostrava, Czech Republic, on December 10, 2019. A 42-year-old man from the vicinity of Opava, north Moravia, shot six people dead and injured another patients in a waiting room of the Ostrava Teaching Hospital's outpatient traumatology ward this morning. (CTK Photo/petr Sznapka)