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A vaccine certificate recording four jabs – the last one with Pfizer – belongs to a Ramathibodi Hospital doctor who is preparing to study abroad, the Department of Disease Control (DDC) said.

The Rural Doctors Society has declared that it will thoroughly inspect the quality of Chinese rapid antigen test kits (ATKs) controversially purchased by the Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO).

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) held a special ceremony on Wednesday to thank the Rural Doctor Society for helping conduct Covid-19 tests in communities across the capital.

Frustrated by the soaring number of Covid-19 cases in Tak’s Mae Sot district, a doctor decided to quit the official communicable disease control team.

The “Mor Mai Thon” (Doctors Won’t Tolerate) group is demanding that the government procure mRNA vaccines for frontline medics after the leaked minutes of a meeting about the distribution of donated Pfizer vaccines created an uproar on social media on Sunday.

Japans medical establishment is becoming increasingly anxious about bringing together 78,000 people from 200 countries for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, even as the country struggles to keep coronavirus infections under control and speed up vaccinations.

It is the silent toll of Indias deadly second wave. After a terrifying month that saw Covid-19 overwhelm the countrys run down health system, doctors and nurses on the pandemic frontlines say they were pushed into physical and mental exhaustion as they fought to keep their patients alive.

A Mae Sot Hospital doctor posted a message on Facebook thanking Atlanta Medicare for donating 3,700 bottles of an antiretroviral drug worth 3.55 million baht.

A major Japanese physicians group has joined the chorus of voices calling on Tokyo and the International Olympic Committee to cancel the upcoming 2020 Tokyo Games.

A generous doctor came to the aid of a penniless mother, giving her THB3,000 to buy milk for her one-year-old baby, whom he had treated, and also paying the THB30 medical fee, the Rueng Lao Mor Chai Daen (The Story of Doctors at the Border) Facebook page reported on Tuesday.

Doctors and nurses, coping with the daily risk of coronavirus exposure, are expected to get top priority to receive vaccines that could become available as soon as next month. But it's an open question how many will seize their place at the front of the line.

BAGHDAD - On the front lines, Iraq's doctors are contracting the coronavirus by the hundreds, as a rising wave of infections threatens to crush the country's health-care system.