Bali Clinics & Hospitals
Accidents Kill 3000 Annually: Indonesia
You know how it is. You are on hols and hire a motorbike or a vehicle of some kind to do some exploring in Bali. Getting around in Bali needs attention when you are driving and more so than when you are doing it in your home country.
Date: June 20th, 2006 |
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Vaccines and Travel: Indonesia
When I read that Tetanus had killed at least 18 earthquake survivors in Yogyakarta according to WHO and that more than 50 known cases of the infection spread through bacteria, I thought I had better get out my yellow book and check when I was last vaccinated.
Date: June 17th, 2006 |
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AIDS Trend Increases in Indonesia
I can well remember when AIDS first came to the fore rumours abound that you could catch the disease by just kissing and I can recall those awful Grim Reaper advertisements on the television.
Date: June 15th, 2006 |
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Abu Bakar Bashir Freed Today: Jakarta, Indonesia
After reclining and relaxing in a comfy jail cell for the last 25 months of his life convicted cleric Abu Bakar Bashir walked free today. Many westerners are angered at this short sentence for his role in the 2002 Bali bombings in Kuta, Bali and rightly so.
Date: June 14th, 2006 |
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Bird Flu Blues: Indonesia
The Avian Bird Flu and what it can do to a person, as in death, tends to deter the concerned traveller from even getting off the couch and going overseas for a holiday.
Date: June 13th, 2006 |
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Rabies Kills Six in Sulawesi
I was only writing the other day about Rabies and how a child in Bandung died after being bit a rabid dog, and how most dogs in Java were culled if I could use that term. A better word would be massacred but I won't write that.
Date: June 20th, 2006 |
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Food Crisis in East Nusa Tenggara
Famines are rare in Indonesia. I have seen farmers suffering hard times due to failed crops, mice infestation and destruction by rain&344; food crisis' are now becoming more prevalent throughout the archipelago.
Date: June 16th, 2006 |
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UNICEF Tracks Missing Children: Timor Leste
So often we see that during a dire worldly experience that causes a catastrophe it is always the women and children that suffer the most. Whether its starvation, displacement or loss of life, they seem to carry the brunt.
Date: June 15th, 2006 |
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The Barefoot Hero Doctor: Timor Leste
In all tragedies, whether natural disasters or conflicts, there is always a hero of the situation that emerges as a shining light. In Timor Leste this hero comes in the form of a barefoot Australian doctor.
Date: June 14th, 2006 |
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Aid Shipment for Dili: Timor Leste
A massive aid shipment is on its way to East Timor to deliver desperately needed supplies to thousands of people displaced by the ongoing crisis according to an article in the ABC New Australia.
Date: June 12th, 2006 |
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