by Dr Nada AL-Hadithy, Swee Chai Ang, Prof Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Victoria Rose, Naveen Cavale, Tim Goodacre, Ahmed El-Mokhallalati | Dec 30, 2024
It has long been recognised that the health predicament in which Palestinians have been placed is inexcusable. The health-care systems in Gaza were already struggling with demand, with a total of 3412 beds catering to a population exceeding 2.1 million people. The...
by Sanna Waheed | Aug 31, 2024
Background Muslim healthcare students striving for professional excellence can face a unique challenge: reconciling religious dress codes with hospital policies. While previous research highlights the potential conflict for Muslim healthcare professionals, limited...
by Shereen Asghar, Maheen Shoaib, Mennatalla Ayyad, Syed Mohammad Ali Hassnain, Saeed Ahmed | Aug 31, 2024
Despite ongoing efforts by BIMA, there remains a substantial disparity in the rates of people opting in for organ donation between the white and BAME communities. The “Annual Report on Ethnicity Differences in Organ Donation and Transplantation 2022/2023”...
by Abdul-Hadi Kafagi, Maliha Momo,Aziz Al-Qaisia, Sara Bahadur,Mohammad Ullah,Enam Haque | Aug 31, 2024
Muslim medical students and staff face significant challenges in raising concerns within higher education institutions (HEIs), often encountering dismissive attitudes, inadequate responses from programme leaders, or short-lived superficial symbolic wins. Such...
by Aalia Qureshi | Aug 31, 2024
Introduction Philanthrocapitalism, particularly in the US, will soon dominate the landscape of global health and development, where private actors fund their own initiatives, without enforceable accountability mechanisms, ethical decision-making by qualified experts...