Representatives from the health service, along with Long Covid Advocacy Ireland, appeared before the Oireachtas Health Committee this morning.
TORONTO - Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones and her ministry are refusing to divulge the amount of money that seven patients in the province have been fined for not accepting transfers from a hospital to a long-term care home not of their choosing. A law enacted in 2022, known as Bill 7, requires hospitals to levy fines of $400 a day on patients who can be discharged but need long-term care and are refusing to go to a nursing home selected for them by a placement co-ordinator. The...
After ten years as an intensive care unit (ICU) nurse, looking after the hospital's sickest patients, I've almost become desensitised to it.
MOOSIC, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— Officials say multiple people have been transported to the hospital after an ammonia leak was reported in Lackawanna County. First responders say they were called to the area of Fresh N' Lean in Moosic around 9:45 a.m. Monday morning. Thomas Taylor, Director of the Department of Emergency Management, said there was []
Myanmar is facing an acute humanitarian crisis since fighting escalated at the end of October 2023. The intensification of conflict has led to a lack of humanitarian access, a decimation of the healthcare system, and increasing fear of military conscription.
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Westerners see elephants as pets, said Mokgweetsi Masisi, whose government threatened to send 30,000 elephants to Germany and the UK to demonstrate their dangersMany Europeans value the lives of elephants more than those of the people who live around them, the president of Botswana has said, amid tensions over potential trophy hunting import bans.Botswana recently threatened to send 30,000 elephants to the UK and Germany after both countries proposed stricter controls on hunting trophies. The...
A program that provides some patients acute-level care in their own home is now up and running at four Vancouver hospitals: Vancouver General, St. Paul's, Mount St. Joseph and the University of B.C. hospital.
Democratic lawmakers Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Rep. Andy Kim have partnered up with Republican Rep. Jen Kiggans to introduce legislation aiming to give army reservists and members of the National Guard that also work for the federal government options on the type of health care plans they can receive.The bill, which could impact thousands of federal employees that are also in the U.S. Army, plans to give this group of Americans the ability to decide whether they want military or civilian...
The A39 has been closed in both directions after a number of vehicles collided on the A39.
Texas’ hospitals and healthcare systems are crucial for the health and prosperity of our communities.
Hospitals' "trauma activation fees" are unregulated and extremely variable.