Because catastrophe in Yemen is multilayered, one wonders how to begin or determine the heart of the question. One could, however, point out the war, ongoing for six years now, whose aftermath was scattered authority and powers sharing the land, whose clashes stand in the way of public service provision. That’s not the only problem, though. Even before the war, the public health system had already been quite miserable.
How can the healthcare system in Egypt get its priorities in order throughout the coronavirus pandemic? With allocations that do not exceed 1.5 percent of the GDP and has yet to reach the constitutional average – of 3 percent? A development plan has been announced, but its bulk falls under “presidential initiatives”. How did the response go? And what was its aftermath?
While the healthcare system in Algeria has not collapsed with the pandemic, the latter cruelly revealed its great vulnerability through the strategies at work between the state and the new...
In the beginning, the sanitary situation was under control. With the sanitary lockdown, successively lower cases of infection and death would be recorded. Death rates were limited to zero to...
Defence and security have reigned supreme over state budget, amidst internal warring on a number of fronts. Their two budgets combined took over 50 percent of some of those state...
The fact that the latest struggle has brought 1948 in all its political, social and geographic dimensions back into the center of attention, suggests a moment where Palestine as a...
Iraq ended 2020 among the top Arab countries with the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths, boasting of 597 thousand cases and 12.8 thousand deaths. The overall number of...
The UNCHR described the situation of healthcare in Syria as “catastrophic”, where only 58 percent of hospitals were fully functional and only 53 percent of medical centres that provided basic...
