Health Ministry

The Taliban launched a complex attack on the Afghan parliament June 22, with a suicide car bomber striking at the entrance and gunmen battling police as lawmakers were meeting inside to confirm the appointment of a defense minister, police and witnesses said.

Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled parental permission is not necessary for the vaccination of babies and children, following a case where the parents of a one-year-old baby refused compulsory vaccinations for their child. 

South Korea reported three new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome on June 21, bringing the total to 169 in the largest outbreak outside Saudi Arabia, but Thailand said it had no new infections.

Thousands of South Korean schools that were shut to stop the spread of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) reopened on June 15 as the country sought to return to normal, nearly four weeks into an outbreak that shows signs of slowing. 

Workers at Greece?s ambulance service (EKAB) have threatened to hold work stoppages from Tuesday because of unpaid overtime.

The EKAB employees? union claims that its members have not been paid since December for working night shifts and on public holidays.

A suicide bomber blew himself up in the parking lot of Karnak temple in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor on June 10, security sources and witnesses said, in an escalation of  attacks on tourist sites. 

Bulgaria and Romania will start ordering jointly expensive pharmaceuticals in end-2015 in a bid to secure lower prices through larger quantities, according to Health Minister Petar Moskov.

Moskov made clear Saturday that the two countries would try to persuade other European countries to join the pharmaceutical union at a later stage.

Turkey?s Health Ministry has asked primary care physicians to provide the personal identity information of their psychiatric patients, in a move described by the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) as a ?scandal.?

Primary care physicians across the country began a three-day strike May 20 against working on weekends, which the Health Ministry had made obligatory earlier this year. 

A day after the entire municipal council of Tilos resigned in protest at the lack of medical professionals, a doctor was dispatched to the tiny Dodecanese island late on Friday.