The series will report from around the world and focus on regions where people are vulnerable to specific health issues. It will examine the latest scientific and technological advances, as well as explore new medical insights into the biggest health challenges and dilemmas.
Hosted by presenters Dr Ayan Panja and Dr Shini Somara, the series will broadcast weekly on Saturdays and Sundays. Somara and Panja will introduce a series of short films from around the world, speak to key players in global health and explore the most important and intriguing new medical devices and innovations.
Emma De’Ath, Commissioning Editor, BBC World News says, “Health is an area that we know our global audience wants more of, so we’re really excited to have this new weekly show coming to the World News Channel. The team will be actively seeking the audience’s response to these health stories which have global relevance and offer a window into the future of medicine”
Episode One - 23 July 2011
New circumcision device
The lead story in the first episode is male circumcision; the team visits Rwanda where the government wants to circumcise two million men by the end of 2012. Circumcision reduces the chances of men being infected with HIV by sixty per cent. The show examines a new device that offers a bloodless method of circumcision that doesn’t require anaesthetics or sterile environments.
Ultra Sound Surgery
A focus on how doctors in Oxford are testing technology developed in China to destroy cancerous tumours using non-invasive ultrasound rather than perform surgery.
Health Show “soap”
Over the course of the series The Health Show will base itself at a health institution in different parts of the world to produce a series of fly on the wall films. The first soap is with an organisation in Lesotho in Southern Africa which provides transport for health workers. Each year millions of people die from easily preventable diseases because health workers do not have reliable transport. The film follows a nurse on his journey by motorbike on snow covered mountain tracks to meet his patients.
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