· June, 2012

Stories about Health from June, 2012

China: Lives of Kidney Sellers

  2 June 2012

Alia from ChinaBeat translated a local feature story on the lives of kidney sellers in China. What they gets in return is about USD5600 per kidney.

Brazil: Government Cuts on Public Healthcare System

  1 June 2012

The Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff decreased [pt] by 50% the salaries of physicians in the Healthcare System (SUS) through a ‘provisory measure‘, in May, 2012. Conceição Lemes, from the blog Vi o Mundo, reports on the new measure that affects 48,000 doctors and quotes the President of the Regional Council of...

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