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Nurses Are Furious but the Exact Reason Is Not Clear

...omes difficult to handle. 'But that's how it is on wards and handling pressure is all part of the job. He also said that older nurses say that younger nurses cannot do some of the basic tasks they were trained to do and are not interested to learn. Others see it as their job to challenge the doctors in eve...

Death from Cholera Rises in Angola

...era. Authorities have set up emergency treatment wards at hospitals as well as ordered more stocks of water-purifying tablets. The government is running a public awareness campaign that includes information bulletins in the national media, as well as volunteers going from door-to-door. In addition th...

Even Hospitals Not Drug Proof

...ealth Trust, admitted that 14% of patients in some wards were currently taking drugs on the premises. He sa...ee children and has been in and out of psychiatric wards since 2001. He has attributed his present condition to his drugs use. He admits to smoking cannabis ...

Post Partum Blues Often Treated with Drugs

...m 63 per cent were admitted in general psychiatric wards instead of specialist mother and baby units. Mind's chief Executive, Paul Farmer, said: "Emotional and mental distress can be devastating for mothers and their families. "It's shocking how many women are being diagnosed incorrectly or not at all,...

Delhi Hospitals Cancel Holidays And Recalls Doctors

...play a vital role in the normal functioning of the wards but the ongoing strike is certainly affecting the work. We are trying our best not to turn away patients and in past 24 hours, 310 patients have been treated in OPD (out patient department) and emergency wards," the official told IANS, requesting ano...

Striking Students Asked to Vacate Hostels

... team of striking doctors and were sent to various wards of the SMS hospital, Dr R Kataria, President of 'Youth for Equality' told PTI here. "We do not want to harass patients for our cause and this kind of camp for them would regularly be organised," he said. Later 350 resident doctors, who are on st...

Bacterium Overtook Patients At Brisbane Women’s Hospita

...tant bacterium where nearly 19 patients// in three wards were found with a bacterium called carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) on their skin. To prevent the spread, 12 patients from burns unit (people with 40 or 50 per cent burns) were shifted to Sydney hospital and some to Brisbane's ...

Agitating Doctors Call For Two Day Shut Down Of OPD’

...als in the city on Sunday, with only the emergency wards functioning. The authorities explained that some patients were being referred to other hospitals from the Medical College emergency ward, but they said there were no major disruption....

Mother’s Attitude Towards Immunisation Makes it Inaccessible to Childre

... sample was stratified by UK country and electoral wards to adequately represent infants from ethnic minority groups and disadvantaged backgrounds. Mothers were interviewed when the infants were about 9 months old. They were shown a card listing the primary vaccines, given at 2, 3, and 4 months of age, a...

Victoria Hospital In Bangalore is Lacking Beds In Emergency wards

...ere currently receiving treatment in the emergency wards had to be shifted out so that they could accommodate new patients who were in a more serious condition. The authorities explained that the government realising that many patients were lying on the floors, due to the lack of beds had in the emergenc...

Pneumonic plague Might Be Responsible For The epidemic In Congo - WHO

... The authorities from WHO have said that isolation wards have been set up to treat patients. They also explained that the control measures have been hard to implement because of the lack of security in the area. The outbreak had reportedly begun in mid-May. DR Congo's Ituri province is reported to be the...

Demonstrations by staff in medical college against violence by external agencies

...son allowed to stay back with every patient in the wards from 8 a.m. till 2 p.m, no funeral processions from the hospital campus and autorickshaws parking on campus disallowed....

Lister Hospitals to Reduce Staff

Hundreds of jobs will be terminated and hospital wards will close even as the trust which runs the Lister Hospital is struggling with financial pressures//. . Changes to the local NHS, including a decision made by primary care center to refer fewer patients to the Trust, left them with little option oth...

Dengue Claims its First Victim in Kolkata

...eas under the civic scanner. Though KMC has 141 wards in the city, the civic body has only 60 malaria clinics. Besides opening new clinics, the civic authorities have decided to employ 40 doctors on contract for the next six months. The civic body will also employ laboratory technicians in malaria...

Sexual Assaults Rampant In NHS Mental Units

...t men and women were not being housed in different wards as required by the rules. "Is this the tip of the iceberg or is this the whole iceberg?" he asked....

Monsoon Related Diseases On The Rise In Mumbai

...dditional precautions have been taken in the seven wards most prone to such diseases, including Kurla and p...ls have been treating the suspected cases in these wards in addition to another 900 health officials of the health department. It was reported that the BMC h...

"Serious Failings" Led To Spread Of Lethal Hospital Bug

... review criteria for transferring patients between wards and ensure that wards are properly cleaned and infection control is prioritised. The hospital has 60 days to implement the...

Burka Style Inter-faith Gowns For Muslim Patients In UK

... introduced in the UK, has already been trailed on wards and is to be offered to all female Muslim patients at hospitals in Lancashire from next month. It was explained that during the stay in the hospital the traditional gowns did not cover patient’s heads, arms or legs, which is not in respect with their...

Protein rich diet reduces hunger?

...This results in consumption of fewer calories that wards off obesity. The investigators report that consuming more protein activates and enhances the quantity of peptide YY (PYY), a hormone that actually curbs hunger. Study leader Rachel Batterham, of University College London, said “We’ve now found ...

Mental Health Wards rated unpleasant

According to a survey, mental health wards have been graded as unpleasant or very unpleasant ...survey has revealed that access to gardens at some wards was a reward and was deprived of as a punishment. Mind is necessitating the involvement of servic...

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