Limited access to assistive technologies such as eyeglasses, hearing aids, mobility and communication devices, and a lack of trained workers remain significant challenges in meeting the needs of people with disabilities and the elderly in the Asia Pacific region.
According to a 2022 UN
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Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation leader Phil Ní Sheaghdha said a fully-funded winter plan should be published before the emergency taskforce meeting this month. File picture: Leah Farrell/Rolling News
Almost 10,000 patients spent time on a trolley during August in a shocking new m
Cork University Hospital was ranked as the third most overcrowded hospital in the country, as 919 patients were left in trolleys in CUH in August. Picture: Dan Linehan
A Cork Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) rep has warned of a “bleak winter ahead” if nothing is done to
There’s one intensive care bed available at University Hospital Kerry.
That’s according to figures released by the HSE as part of its COVID-19 daily operations update which cover up to 8pm yesterday (Thursday September 1st).
These figures show that there is one ICU bed availabl
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In May 2020, the Canadia
It’s good to be back! I have a lot of news to share with you and a lot of good Uni Watch content in the hopper. But before we go any further, let’s have a big standing O for the great Phil Hecken, who not only provided his usual month’s worth of awesome August content but did
Beds for patients awaiting examination that are not suspected of being Covid-19 positive stand inside a converted chapel area at Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Community Hospital in the Willowbrook neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
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One of Dr. Sarah Stella’s patients had been homeless for about four years when he was struck by a car, the impact fracturing his pelvis and breaking his femur.
The 45-year-old man had surgery at Denver Heal
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