South Korean medical professors submit their resignations en masse to support a trainee doctors' strike over a government plan to boost medical school admissions.

Iran’s top human rights official blasts the countries that have slapped illegal sanctions on the nation.

Figures have showed that more than 1.5 million patients in England had to wait at least 12 hours in accident and emergency departments (A&E) in the past year.

Nasser Kan'ani has called on the international community to condemn Israel’s assassination of Palestinian patients in a hospital in West Bank, stressing that that world should not remain silent in the face of this “terrorist act” and “barbaric behavior”.

Hundreds of patients have evacuated the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza Strip, after Israel ordered people to leave the facility amid its ongoing attacks on hospitals and medical centers across the besieged enclave.

A Palestinian official has warned that patients are out "in the streets without care” in the Gaza Strip following the "forced evacuations" of two paediatric hospitals amid the ongoing Israeli bombardment.

Iran vehemently denounces the US's sanctions and their potentially deadly role for Iranian patients, including children, who face life-threatening diseases.