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US FDA threatens to ban
Dr Reddy's new drugs
The US Food and Drug Administration,
which had issued a warning letter to
Dr Reddy's Laboratories over quality
issues, has said it might withhold ap-
proval for its fresh drugs and stop im-
port if no corrective action is taken,
after finding several violations of cur-
rent good manufacturing practices at
3 plants.
Women allowed voting in
Saudi local polls
Saudi Arabian Women voted for the
first time in local council elections and
also stood as candidates, a step hailed
by some in the Islamic patriarchy as a
historic change but dubbed by other as
merely symbolic.
25 casualties in Saudi hos-
pital fire
At least 25 people were killed and 107
injured on 22nd December as a horrific
fire engulfed parts of a hospital in Saudi
Arabia's Jizan city. The Saudi civil de-
fence directorate said the blaze broke
out at the Jizan General Hospital at
about 2.30 a. m., Al Jazeera reported.
The disaster occurred in the intensive
care unit and the maternity ward on
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20 fire engines battled the blaze. Oth-
ers were rushed to a number of nearby
public and private hospitals.
UN for woman as the next
secretary general
The UN has kicked off the process to
elect the next Secretary General, with
the Security Council and General As-
sembly making an unprecedented call
to member states to recommend
woman candidates for the top job that
has been held by a man for the past
70 years.
India exports docs, nurses
to Europe most
India has emerged as the largest ex-
porter of doctors and nurses to Euro-
pean countries, a media report said.
More than a third of National Health
Service (NHS) doctors, about 35%, in
the UK alone were born abroad, the
Organisation for Economic Coopera-
tion and Development (OECD) said.
The UK is also among the most depen-
dent on foreign nurses, the report said.
In total, 21.7% of nurses were born
abroad, a sharp increase from a de-
cade earlier when the figure was
15.2%. Across the EU, only Luxem-
dependent on nurses from overseas.
The report also shows that the UK is
the second highest exporter of medics,
second only to Germany with 17,000
British doctors working abroad. 17,000
UK doctors now work in other Euro-
pean health systems, behind India,
China and Germany.
More than 50,000 British nurses now
work in healthcare systems in other
OECD nations, behind only the Philip-
pines and India. NHS figures show there
has been a fall from 10,265 Indian doc-
tors in UK 2009 to 6,880 today.
Muslims must improve
Islam's image: Hassan
Rouhani
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said
that Muslims must improve the image
of their religion, which has been
stained by the violence of hardliner
groups such as Islamic State.
"It is our greatest duty today to cor-
rect the image of Islam in world public
opinion," Rouhani told in a conference
on Islamic unity in Tehran. His remarks
were rare for a leader of Iran, which
considers itself an authority in the Is-