🇲🇺 Mauritius runs its stroke wards on three neurologists

Mauritius runs its stroke wards on three neurologists

Mauritius records about 4,000 strokes a year. More than a thousand are fatal, and stroke ranks among the island's leading causes of lasting disability. To cover every regional hospital, the public health service has exactly three neurologists. Six others practise, only in the private sector.

With a stroke, time is the treatment: the faster the diagnosis, the lower the risk of death and lasting damage. Dr Meetheelesh Abeeuck, who heads the Government Medical and Dental Officers Association, says each regional hospital needs at least four neurologists, roughly twenty for the public service. The three on duty shuttle between hospitals. 'A doctor cannot keep moving from one hospital to another. That is a lot of time lost on the road,' he says, all while carrying his own patients at his base.

Twenty is the target. Three is the reality, and every hour a specialist loses shuttling between wards is an hour a stroke patient does not have.

A witness and a recording deepen the Ravatomanga money case

Nasser Bheeky has filed a statement with the Financial Crimes Commission (FCC), the state body that pursues money-laundering and graft, in the case around Malagasy businessman Mamy Ravatomanga.

Bheeky says he learned the businessman faced threats and 'unlawful demands' for money after landing in Mauritius in October 2025, and that he tried to warn PM Ramgoolam, then abroad. An audio recording tied to the affair is now sharpening the questions. For now it is one man's account and a tape; PM Ramgoolam's government will want the FCC to show what any of it proves.

Kreol Morisien knocks on Parliament's door

Should the language most Mauritians actually speak be allowed on the floor of Parliament? The National Assembly is weighing whether to bring Kreol Morisien into its formal proceedings.

Sarita Boodhoo, former head of the Bhojpuri Speaking Union, backs the move but wants more, arguing the oriental languages deserve the same recognition Kreol is now getting. Strip away the procedure and the fight is about which tongues count as official, and who gets to feel spoken for in their own house.

Ten bakeries checked, quality defects on the daily bread

The ACIM, a consumer-protection association, put ten bakeries under the microscope and flagged quality defects in the 'pain maison' and the everyday baguette. For a country that runs on bread from morning, that is a small audit with a long reach into every kitchen. Bread is never just bread.

Drugs, a pistol and bullets seized at Résidence Kennedy

The Anti-Drug and Smuggling Unit (ADSU) searched a house at Résidence Kennedy on Sunday and left with drugs, a pistol and ammunition. Yannick Joel Antonio Melanie, 32, was arrested at the scene. A firearm sitting next to the stash is what pushes this past ordinary drug haul.

Shorts

Motorcyclist killed on the SAJ Bridge – A motorcyclist in his fifties died Sunday after his bike hit a truck near the SAJ Bridge at Pailles.

House fire kills a man in his sixties – Georges Louise, 60, died in a fire at his home, days after becoming a grandfather for the second time.

Lottotech and Singapore Pools tighten ties – Lottotech and Singapore Pools are deepening their lottery partnership, a quiet nod to where the gaming money flows.

Local government reform bill takes shape – After two years of drafting, the local government reform text is finally taking shape, councils await the detail.

Damry floats an 'AI City' at GOPIO meet – At the GOPIO diaspora convention, Dhaneshwar Damry floated plans for an 'AI City', big on ambition, short on detail.

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Polish sailor Krzysztof Baranowski has docked at Port Louis on his third solo lap of the planet, a reminder that the sailing habit apparently keeps no retirement age.

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Rescuers are still counting the missing after a ferry sank off Indonesia; at least six are confirmed dead so far.

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Turkish authorities arrested that many people in a crackdown on LGBTQ+ and HIV support groups, and blocked their online accounts too.

Senegal lights the flame for Africa's first Olympics

A hundred women marched through Dakar to welcome the Olympic flame to Senegal, with music and dancing. The countdown points to the Youth Olympic Games, the first Olympic sporting event ever staged on African soil.

For a continent long treated as a spectator at the Games, the hosting is the story, not the medal count.

Thousands flee to Djibouti as Houthis push on Bab el-Mandeb

Around 1,400 people have crossed the Gulf of Aden to Djibouti as Houthi fighters advance on the Bab el-Mandeb strait, pulling the Red Sea war closer to our shipping lanes.

School fire and stampede kill 26 children in eastern Congo

At least 26 children died in a fire and crush at a school in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, with pupils jumping from upper windows to escape.

Rybakina topples Sabalenka for a first US Open crown

Elena Rybakina beat Aryna Sabalenka to win her first US Open title and climb to world number one. It is the third Grand Slam of a career that keeps arriving in bursts rather than steady march.

Sabalenka, the favourite, leaves New York with the harder question: how many of these finals slip away before the window does.

Russia pounds Ukraine as Putin warns Europe off troops

Russian strikes killed civilians across Ukraine, which hit back with drones, while President Putin warned Europe against putting boots on Ukrainian ground.

Rival marches face off in Portsmouth

Crowds for and against immigration squared off in Portsmouth, England, held apart by police as a South Coast Patriots march met protesters against racism.

When the river was the family laundromat

Before machines hummed in the corner of every yard, wash day in Mauritius meant a walk to the nearest river. Women gathered on the stones, beat the clothes clean, and traded the week's news while the current did the rinsing. The old ritual was chore and social club at once. Ask anyone who remembers it, and the water was colder than the gossip was warm.

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