By Anirban Sarkar – Bhutan is known as the happiest country in Asia. It is the eighth happiest country in the world. Bhutan enjoys this heartwarming status not for reasons unknown. The most interesting faces on earth, airbrushed by the balmy weather that welcomed us on the day we crossed the Phuntsholing border, never betrayed a frown. Their friendly smile and helpful nature is the biggest treasure a tourist can expect in a foreign land. It took us about two hours at the immigration office in Phuntsholing; and about four hours to reach Thimphu from Phuntsholing once we got the... Continue Reading
Tuesday, 5 April 2011: World Health Day will be commemorated on 7 April and this year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has selected antimicrobial resistance as its focus area. According to Resolution Health Medical Scheme (RHMS), antibiotic resistance is a problem which continues to escalate, mainly as a consequence of the long-standing misuse of antimicrobial agents. As a result, there are fewer and fewer antibiotics available to treat serious infections. The discovery of penicillin revolutionised the treatment of infective diseases such as septic wounds, pneumonia and the like. “However, as with any other evolutionary pressure, fast dividing micro-organisms devised ways... Continue Reading
Click here for part 1, Click here for part 2, Click here for Part 3, Click here for Part 4 Click here for Part 5 HOW DO YOU HEAL DELUSION DISORDER? By Ozodi Thomas Osuji – Delusion disorder results from the belief that one has a separated self from the rest of the universe. In reality all things are connected so that to see ones self as separated from other things is a delusion. Consider that one’s body is a direct result of elements manufactured in stars. One lives by breathing oxygen produced by plants. One eats food that in... Continue Reading
Click here for part 1, Click here for part 2, Click here for Part 3, Click here for Part 4 DISCUSSION By Ozodi Thomas Osuji – In over two decades working as a mental health professional, I have not seen a healed paranoid person (and so is the case with other mental health professionals). The disorder is extremely difficult to heal. It is very difficult to heal because it was caused by a host of factors, including biological, social and existential. A whole lot of things make human beings feel small and they react by desiring feeling big. They want to... Continue Reading
By Morkporkpor Anku, Accra, Ghana– Dr Edem Hiadzi, Medical Director of Lister Hospital on Wednesday said statistics available indicated that every two minutes a woman dies of Cervical Cancer worldwide. He noted that the disease was the second most common cancer affecting women worldwide and accounting for about 10 per cent of all cancer cases. Dr Hiadzi announced this at a sensitisation programme on the “effects of Cervical and Prostate Cancer on Reproductive Health of Individuals” for students of the Central University College, at Prampram in the Greater Accra Region. He said the programme was part of the Corporate Social... Continue Reading
