Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY, Aug 26 2011 (IPS) – Experts and activists are calling for the reinstatement of the ban on casinos in Mexico, saying they foment not only problem gambling but also links to organised crime. The debate was revived after at least 52 people were killed in a fire set by armed men in the Casino Royale in Monterrey.
The best thing would be to close them down, because they are leading to serious cases of corruption, former gambler Carlos del Moral, the founder of the Centro de Atención de Ludopatía y Crecimiento Integral (CALCI), a treatment centre for pathological gamblers, told IPS. This is an extremely serious social problem. Casinos fuel addiction.
The casino that was torched Thursday evening in the capital of the northeastern state of Nuevo …
In public hospitals in Costa Rica, like the Rafael Ángel Calderón hospital in San José, there is no protocol regulating legal therapeutic abortion, for doctors to follow. As a result, physicians restrict the practice to a minimum, leaving women without their right to terminate a pregnancy when their health is at risk. Credit: Die…
A doctor examines the x-ray of a TB patient in New Delhi. Credit: Bijoyeta Das/IPS.
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 24 2017 (IPS) – New antibiotics that could treat tuberculosis may rapidly become ineffective, according to new research published by the Lancet ahead of World Tuberculosis Day.
The rise in multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, which affected 480,000 people in 2015, could mean that even newly discovered drugs will soon be useless, the found.
In total both drug resistant and non-drug resistant Tuberculosis (TB) killed an estimated 1.8 million people in 2015, making it the world’s deadliest infectious disease. The five countries where T…
Congestion before the project came into force. Credit: WFP/Nalifa Mehelin
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Jun 15 2020 (IPS) – The novel coronavirus has affected the lives of millions worldwide at its very onset. The situation in Bangladesh is no different. Wearing masks and washing hands frequently have become the new normal. The first laboratory confirmed COVID-19 case was identified in Cox’s Bazar on 23 March. Unforeseen circumstances often lead to unprecedented innovative actions as is exemplified by a Humanitarian Access Project.
To mitigate the spread of COVID-19 amongst the 860,000 Rohingya refugees living in Cox’s Bazar, the Government of Bangladesh mov…