By AFPFive-year-old Yusuf Mahmud Nazir died from pneumonia after being sent home, despite a doctor describing his tonsillitis as the worst he had ever seen.Martin Clark, 68, was driven to hospital by his family after they waited 45 minutes for an amb...

By AFP When Debora Zilz rushed her baby son Andreas to a Berlin hospital because of a serious respiratory illness, she got a shock."There was no space," she recalled. Medics desperately rang other hospitals in the German capital and neighbouring Bran...

Syrian families who admit their children to the Damascus University Children Hospital (the state-owned educational hospital that used to provide medical care for ill children for nominal fees) have to pay 20,000 Syrian pounds ($7.96) per day instead...