From the Daily News Egypt…
The Doctors Without Rights movement denounced the pay raise offered by Minister of Health Hatem El Gabaly to doctors, Dr Mona Mina, official spokesperson of the movement told Daily News Egypt.
The movement deemed the raise “an underestimation of doctors’ deteriorating conditions and a horrible alternative to their call for a new [...]

Sarah Carr brings us some good news about the fight against the privatization of the country’s health insurance system…
The Administrative Court halted government plans to place Egypt’s health insurance system under the control of a profit-making company, in a judgement issued on Thursday in what a rights advocate called a “historic” verdict.
The case was raised [...]

The chairman of the state-owned Steel Mills, Abdel Aziz Hafez, has ordered the company’s clinic to cease handing out Hepatitis C medication for workers, el-Badeel reports…

From the Daily News Egypt…
Instead of deterring smokers, the new set of warning pictures printed on cigarette packs are driving up the sales of metal cigarette boxes, Ibrahim El Embaby, head of the Tobacco Industry Division of the Industries Union, told local press.
According to the new tobacco law, which was approved by the People’s Assembly [...]

From the Daily News Egypt…
Drinking water in some of the villages in Mahalla El-Kobra was found unfit for human consumption due to high levels of minerals and chloride, according to a report by the chemical and bacteriological labs at the Ministry of Health.
The findings are some of several released by the Ministry of Health, according [...]

From the Daily News Egypt…
Members of the People’s Assembly (PA) and local leaders of Damietta have warned of a possible escalation in residents’ response to the continued presence of the Agrium nitrogen and ammonia plant near Ras El-Bar resort.
Although the PA had decided to remove the plant from Damietta, the plant site still remains, much [...]

Doctors in Sinai’s Arish General Hospital strike over failure to provide security for the working staff, while 750 nurses in the Nile Delta’s Shebin el-Kom Educational Hospital go on strike demanding their late due incentives…
For continuous updates on activism within the health sector, check out the blogs of Doctors Without Rights, El-Sahel Hospital Doctors [...]

Workers at the Palestine Hospital, located in Cairo’s Heliopolis district, are on strike…

From Al-Jazeera…
A methane blast at a coal mine in southern Poland has killed four miners and injured 23 others.

I couldn’t finish watching this… Read about it here in English and over there in Arabic…
UPDATE: Read those two postings by Zeinobia…

Sarah Carr reports…
Eighteen Egyptian human rights groups have condemned the government’s decision to prevent the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) from participating in a United Nations meeting on HIV and AIDS.
The UN General Assembly High Level Meeting (HLM) on HIV/AIDS will take place on June 10 to 11 in New York.
During the HLM government [...]