Press Review of the week
May 9th 2011
The very news that makes the headlines of all newspapers is the death of Bin Laden…
Nonetheless, we read on the Huffington Post Ann Cooper telling us it is essential to break bad eating habits to prevent obesity and overweight (that affect 30 per cent of American children). In our previous post about childhood obesity in Arab world, new studies show that the only way to address this problem remains prevention to break habits.
In the Middle-East, the headlines deal with the social unrest spreading among Arab world countries.
In Qatar, physicians are plunging into polemic: for ArabianBusiness, the Government charges medical workers with causing the death of two demonstrators. Growing shiite opposition in Bahrain and Qatar justified Saudi (Sunni-led) troops intervention allowed by the GCC arrangements, in order to avoid that Shiite Iran take over the country. And the scandal damaging medical workers in Qatar is rooted on this geopolitical tangles. More than 30 professionals fled from Bahrain fearing reprisals from Government.
- Physicians Protest in Amman (PressTV)
In Jordan, Minister of Health spoke on the Jordan Television says The Jordan Times. He evoked the conditions of public sector physicians, on strike for salary raise. He proposed to increase the number of doctors who work in Saudi Arabia as part of the “Visiting Doctor” programme (during which doctors earn €6,000 to €7,000 per month). The Minister has announced the launch of a social plan to cover the 13% of the population without health insurance.
Doctor’s anger does not seem to concern only physicians in the Middle-East: The New York Times points out the cost of the numerous administrative tasks and the discontent among health professionals.
Owing to an AFP news, 10 doctors were injured during the demonstration in Algiers.
