Nearly four kilometers beneath the surface of the earth, inside South Africa’s Mponeng Gold Mine, where broadband connectivity is unreliable and working conditions are demanding, an artificial intelligence (AI)system recently accomplished something few medical technologies had managed before.
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Nigeria has launched a US-backed healthcare partnership, Atunse Healthcare, to target the estimated US$2.39 billion spent annually by residents on overseas medical tourism.
Patients wait for consultations at Ouadda Health Centre in the Central African Republic, where health workers provide essential services to communities in need. Photo: UNOCHA/Regis Maloundou
Health workers took to the streets on Saturday in Bunia, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, to demand several months of unpaid wages. The protest comes as the Ebola epidemic has already claimed more than 1,300 lives, according to the latest WHO figures.
