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Chinese hospital infects five with HIV by reusing equipment
A Chinese hospital has admitted accidentally infecting five people with HIV because a staff member reused medical equipment that should have been discarded. Officials said that a technician reused a tube used to treat an individual with HIV on other patients. Provincial authorities described it as a "severe violation of procedure". Five people had been sacked at Hangzhou's Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, they said.
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How buying bread and milk from Asda has saved Hull hospitals £40k
NHS staff saved £40,000 just by buying their bread and milk from Asda instead of a traditional health service supplier. The massive saving by Humber NHS Foundation Trust for groceries shows how health service cash could be saved by buying everyday goods from cheaper suppliers.
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Infant Mortality Soars in Venezuela
Medical staff at the University Hospital in this eastern Venezuelan city delivered two premature infants that needed incubation earlier this year. But because of the shortages plaguing the country, the hospital had only one functioning incubator, forcing staff to make an agonizing choice. They put the stronger of the two babies in the incubator. The other died days later. Scenes like that continue to play out across this crisis-hit country on a daily basis. In the first five months of this...
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Venezuela: Patients dying as crisis hits hospitals
Venezuela's economy is in trouble. With oil accounting for 95 percent of the country's export earnings, plummeting world prices have sent the South American economy reeling towards collapse. People are going hungry, inflation has spiralled out of control, the military is patrolling supermarkets to keep order amid rising anger, basic raw materials and supplies have run out, factories are shutting down and there is not enough electricity in the country.
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Inside the Unregulated Chinese Hospitals That Make Men Impotent
Doctors at private clinics are destroying men's penises, tricking women into aborting healthy fetuses, and killing patients through negligence—so why are American companies investing millions? On the afternoon of September 30, 2015, 23-year-old Little Huang stood on the roof of the 11-story Shenzhen Health and Family Planning Commission building, ready to jump to his death. In the lot below, Chinese officials' cars looked about the size of matchboxes, and the clamor...
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When the Hospital Fires the Bullet
More and more hospital guards across the country carry weapons. For Alan Pean, seeking help for mental distress, that resulted in a gunshot to the chest. By Elisabeth Rosenthal. (Feb. 12)
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Tales of Pizza: The Hospital Tip
This is why communication is key.
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