Seafarer welfare in the Strait of Hormuz

霍尔木兹海峡航海者福利

Health Check

2026-05-28

26 分钟
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Three months into the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, we find out about the 20,000 sailors trapped on board with dwindling resources and minimal health provision. We hear from Mohamed Arrachedi, Network Co-ordinator for the Arab World and Iran for the International Transport Workers’ Federation, and Helen Sampson, Emeritus Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. News from the World Health Assembly where WHO member countries come together for form health policy for the year ahead. Global Health journalist Andrew Green reports. Lots of us love a video game, but for a few the games can start to take over their lives, and the impact of a gaming disorder can be very serious – especially for children. Our reporter Kate Ferguson reports from a specialist clinic in Western Australia to find out how they have been tackling the issue One in four surveyed doctors thought preservation was likely to work in the future, but how might we be preserved and why would we want to be? We unpack the reality of what’s possible now and what might be next. Presenter: Claudia Hammond Producer: Hannah Robins, Clare Salisbury, Researcher: Scarlett Victoria
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  • Hello and welcome to Health Check from the BBC.

  • I'm Claudia Hammond, here for the next half an hour with the latest health news from around the world.

  • Three months after the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz began, we're asking what's happening

  • to the 20,000 seafarers stuck on board ships with dwindling food supplies and fears of what might happen next.

  • More on that in a moment.

  • And we'll hear from the Video Game Clinic in Western Australia,

  • helping young people for whom gaming has become a serious problem.

  • And to help me today, I have international health journalist Andrew Green, who's joining us from Berlin.

  • How are you?

  • I know you've been in Geneva at the World Health Assembly, haven't you?

  • Yes, I'm just out of quite a few meetings, so I have a lot to talk to you about from Geneva.

  • We'll do that later on.

  • And what else do you have for us?

  • So I also was looking at a new study on just how likely it is that our brains can be preserved