Power cuts and no doctor force Ghat maternity unit shutdown
Jul 15 Nigel Ash

Power cuts and no doctor force Ghat maternity unit shutdown

By Olfa Andolsi.Tunis, 15 July 2015:Pregnant woman in Ghat are having to travel 360 km to Obari to have their babies because the town’s maternity clin...

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Major problems with Libya’s health care services still in evidence
May 10 Michel Cousins

Major problems with Libya’s health care services still in evidence

By Libya Herald reporter.Tunis, 10 May 2017:Over 20 percent of Libya’s primary health care facilities and 17 percent of its hospitals remain closed, a...

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Benghazi’s Hawari Hospital to reopen on 1 April
Mar 18 Michel Cousins

Benghazi’s Hawari Hospital to reopen on 1 April

By Libya Herald reporter.Benghazi, 18 March 2017:The outpatients’ clinic at Benghazi’s Hawari Hospital is to reopen on 1 April as a first stage in pla...

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The rise of fighters' anger
Jun 21 Michel Cousins

The rise of fighters' anger

By Libya Herald correspondent.Misrata, 21 June 2016:The left side of Ramadan As-Sadaoui's head is blue. He took a bullet from an Islamic State (IS) sn...

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Sarraj visits Tripoli Medical Centre
Jun 21 Michel Cousins

Sarraj visits Tripoli Medical Centre

By Ajnadin Mustafa.Tripoli, 21 June 2016:Disproving rumours that he had gone on holiday to Europe, the head of the Presidency Council Faiez Serraj has...

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Mar 21 Nigel Ash

MSF paints grim picture of Libyan healthcare

By Libya Herald reporters.Tripoli, 21 March 2016:The international medical charity Medicins sans Frontieres has produced a grim assessment of the coll...

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Libya wants $50m assistance from WHO - but the money is not there
Jan 29 Nigel Ash

Libya wants $50m assistance from WHO - but the money is not there

By Libya Herald reporters.Tripoli, 29 January 2016:Libya has begged the World Health Organisation to press ahead with a $50-million assistance program...

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Dec 18 Sami Zaptia

Libyan health system is dysfunctional: WHO

By Sami Zaptia.Tunis, 18 December 2015:Libya’s health sector is dysfunctional, Jaffar Hussien WHO Libya Director, said at the UNDP-organized Second Li...

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More children die from scorpion stings in southern Libya; antidote shortage blamed
Sep 6 Michel Cousins

More children die from scorpion stings in southern Libya; antidote shortage blamed

By Libya Herald reporter.Tripoli, 6 September 2015:More children are reported to have died from scorpion stings in the south of the country because of...

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Medical shipment arrives in Derna
Aug 20 Michel Cousins

Medical shipment arrives in Derna

By Ajnadin Mustafa.Tripoli, 20 August 2015:Preparations are underway in Derna ahead of reopening a number of departments at the city’s hospital, local...

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