Saudi Arabia has witnessed a three percent overall increase in online recruitment activity with an increase of 11 percent in the healthcare industry from Q1 2017 to Q2 2017, according to the latest Monster Employment Index (MEI).

The healthcare industry in KSA recorded the highest growth in online recruitment among all monitored industries from Q1 2017 and has also witnessed the highest year-on-year growth at 12 percent from Q2 2016. The growth in opportunities in the healthcare sector comes despite a slowdown"...

Decades of conflict and under-investment have placed a huge strain on Iraq’s healthcare system, and pregnant women and their babies are paying for it with their lives.

Although progress has been made to lower maternal mortality rates, there has been slow headway in reducing the mortality rates for children under five. Newborn babies are particularly vulnerable because of poor birth practices, inadequate referral mechanisms and inefficient"...

Some 44 billion IQD (over 37.5 m USD) has been allocated to the construction of a 100-bed hospital in Sinjar, said health director of Duhok province.

Dr. Nzar Ismat told BasNews on Saturday that the steps for construction of the hospital have already been launched.

He added there was no chance of renovating the major hospital in Sinjar because it was completely destroyed"...

Poverty rates in the provinces restored by the Iraqi Army have increased to over 45 per cent, with expected plans of reconstruction, development and investment estimated at tens of billions of dollars.

The member of the National Central Committee for Poverty Reduction, MP Noura Salem Al-Bajari, estimated the cost of reconstruction of these provinces at more than $30 billion.

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Gulf Inject, a Julphar company - the region’s leading pharmaceutical manufacturer, has announced it has signed a local distribution agreement with Zulekha Healthcare Group.

The business milestone event was held at the Gulf Inject manufacturing facility located in the Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai in the presence of dignitaries and representatives from both companies.

Launched"...

(ME NewsWire)-- WIN Consortium (WIN) received the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s approval to start the clinical investigation of a novel therapeutic approach using a combination of three targeted therapies for the first line treatment of patients with advanced Non Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC). The Survival Prolongation by Rationale Innovative Genomics (SPRING) trial will aim to enroll patients who are usually offered first line platinum-based chemotherapy. Patients"...

GCI, a Malaysian solution provider with niche focus in Health IT, has signed an agreement to implement its solutions across all public healthcare facilities in Jordan.

The 6-year country wide implementation will see GCI’s solutions implemented across more than 540 facilities. This will be part of the country’s ongoing Hakeem National e-health Program implementation"...

Security authorities in Iraq’s Kurdistan have taken measures to ensure safety and stability during the referendum on the region’s independence set for Sept 25, 2017. The remarks were made by Kurdish Minister of Interior Karim Sinjari during his meeting with a Kuwaiti media delegation late Sunday. Security authorities have arrested about 1,700 members of the so-called Islamic State (IS) who were hiding among displaced Iraqis in the region’s refugee camps, he noted. Although the city of Mosul was liberated"...