Sudan Doctors

According to members in Sudan Doctors Syndicate (Sudan Doctors Strike committee)

Dr. Ahmed Al Abawabi and Dr. Abdel Aziz Game was called to Security force office for questioning

Close sources told Sudan Doctors that the call is related to  Sudan Doctors syndicate mass eftar suppose to take place today in Khartoum Medical faculty.

Meanwhile Police force is preventing doctors and medical students from Entering the premises of faculty of Medicine University of Khartoum.

The registrars said that Khartoum state ministry of health did not implement President’s decree related to  Medical Registrars  salaries and allowances.
 According to Alwatan daily news paper some registrars complained that they didn’t receive clinic and meal allowances from Khartoum health ministry 

Doctors in Argentina have removed a tumor from a woman that was so massive, it looked as if she was pregnant with quintuplets, a lead surgeon said.

The huge growth, tipping the scales at nearly 56 pounds, had been growing inside the 54-year-old patients' uterus for 18 months. It was taken out during a four hour operation at Gandulfo Hospital near the capitol of Buenos Aires.

Tax data has shown that 410 dentists in England and Wales earned more than £300,000 in 2008/9, up by eight per cent on the previous year.

In total almost 700 dentists earned more than £250,000 from NHS and private work, according to the figures from the NHS Information Centre.

The end to the on – going indefinite strike embarked upon by the medical doctors under the Lagos State employment may not be in sight as the State Government yesterday said it cannot afford to pay the controversial Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS) as demanded by the doctors.

ATHENS, Greece -- Doctors in Thessaloniki said on Sunday (August 8th) that they suspect three elderly patients who died of encephalitis recently may have been infected with a rare virus. Of 22 patients hospitalised since Friday, seven have been told to stay in hospital, and two of them are "strongly suspected" of having the so-called West Nile virus, which is commonly spread by mosquitoes. Results of laboratory tests are expected later Monday. Many people contaminated with the West Nile virus never get sick at all, but some develop potentially deadly meningitis and encephalitis

The 12-hour multi-organ transplant was completed at Melbourne's Austin Hospital early this morning.

Brendan Cole, 32, had been suffered worsening intestinal failure since childhood and has endured more than 30 operations.

Surgeons replaced his small intestine, liver, pancreas and duodenum, in an operation regarded as the most complex and risky of all transplant procedures.

Authorities are investigating the amputation of a 91-year-old woman's healthy leg in an Austrian hospital.

Wilfried Siegele, a spokesman for the Innsbruck public prosecutor's office, said the investigation was launched last month after the hospital in the town of St Johann in Tyrol province alerted authorities about the June 16 incident.