What’s Out Addis info on Health and Wellness
“By staying home today, we can travel tomorrow”. This message is from the UN’s World Tourism Organization in response to COVID-19. Tourism will be the hardest hit of all economic sectors. But tourism has shown an unparalleled ability to recover from crisis and is uniquely positioned to lead wider societal recovery, driving economic growth, creating […]
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The German Embassy in Addis Ababa in neighbouring Woredas 3 and 5 organized a generous handover ceremony of urgently needed food supplies for 100 older people in need! The German Embassy supported this noble gesture in challenging times with ETB 36.000. Together with their Ethiopian partners they also check each ETH-GER development cooperation project, to
Ethiopian Airlines is in a forefront in hauling cargo and shipping medical equipments as COVID-19 is sweeping the globe and devastating the aviation industry. Alongside Ethiopian Cargo, South African Airways (SAA ) cargo have both been adding additional freight flights to cater for medical equipment demand related to the coronavirus outbreak, Air Cargo News reported.
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The following Articles caught my attention recently: “104 – year-old American is world’s oldest coronavirus survivor.” Here is another one: “A 101 – year-old British man was infected with coronavirus. He fought it for two weeks – and won, hospital says.” How can a 101 – year old man fight COVID – 19 and win?
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The earth whispered but you did not hear.The earth spoke but you did not listenThe earth screamed but you turned her off.And so I was born…I was not born to punish you..I was born to awaken you..The earth cried out for help…Massive flooding. But you didn’t listen.Burning fires. But you didn’t listen.Strong hurricanes. But you
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Ethiopia launched on Monday a nationwide door-to-door temperature screening campaign to prevent and mitigate the spread of coronavirus. The move came in the face of a potential acceleration of the virus in the country of 110 million people. The Ministry of Health, earlier in the day, disclosed four new COVID-19 cases, raising the national total
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One piece of vital medical equipment that has assumed star status in the wake of the current pandemic is the ventilator. They are basically breathing machines that facilitates breathing in cases of respiratory failure. They buy time for chronic sufferers of the coronavirus as medics work on treatment. In Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country,
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Masks and hand washing may help stem the coronavirus outbreak but in Ethiopia health officials are busy deploying another key resource: women. An army of community health workers – many of them women who in the 2000s helped reduce maternal mortality – are now trying to stop the disease spreading in the east African country.
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When pandemic and epidemic occur at different times, herbs and spices have always been used as a secret weapon to fight infection. Using homemade remedies (i.e., herbs and spices) for various medical conditions has been a tradition and practice among Ethiopian people. Our spicy foods contain plenty of herbs and spices as ingredients which are
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COVID-19 drug development is the research process to develop a preventative vaccine or therapeutic prescription drug that would alleviate the severity of 2019-20 coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Internationally as of April 2020, some 200 drug companies, biotechnology firms, university research groups, and health organizations were involved in stages of vaccine or drug development. As of 9
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