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The largest public sector strike in Ireland in 18 years is set to involve over 300,000 workers, including teachers, nurses, and doctors, on October 14, in response to the government's failure to provide substantial pay rises amidst a cost-of-living crisis. #IrishStrike #PublicSector #CostOfLiving

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Krzysztof Graj 14h

AFRICA DAILY REPORT — 12 OCTOBER 2026 Key developments of past 24 hours 1. DJIBOUTI — Migrant boat disaster: at least 139 dead IMPORTANCE: 10/10 — CRITICAL The IOM reported 139 deaths, 84 people missing and 82 survivors after a boat carrying 305 migrants capsized near Obock while travelling toward Yemen. Search operations and survivor assistance continue. SOURCE (Reuters, 11 October): https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/109-migrants-including-15-children-dead-after-boat-djibouti-yemen-capsizes-un-2026-10-11/ 2. SUDAN–EGYPT BORDER — Airstrike kills at least 13 miners IMPORTANCE: 9/10 — VERY HIGH The Sudan Doctors Network said an airstrike on an artisanal gold mine in the border triangle killed at least 13 miners and wounded 28. The aircraft's operator has not been identified. SOURCE (Associated Press, 11 October): https://apnews.com/article/445367c8aa73005c2ade4b8999b68259 3. ETHIOPIA — Flights resume to Mekelle after federal-allied forces enter city Commercial flights resumed after weeks of interruption. Getachew Reda, an adviser to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, pledged changes in Tigray; the region's political and security future remains uncertain. SOURCE (Associated Press, 11 October): https://apnews.com/article/2c6ebeb250cbf98852ab32bf2f36a04a 4. ERITREA–ETHIOPIA — Eritrea seeks UN intervention Eritrea appealed for UN action amid accusations from Ethiopia that Eritrean troops had crossed into Tigray. Eritrea denied the incursion. The conflicting claims have not been independently verified in full. SOURCE (Africanews, 11 October): https://www.africanews.com/2026/10/11/eritrea-uges-united-nations-to-intervene-in-standoff-with-ethiopia/ 5. KENYA — No new Ebola cases after 293 tests IMPORTANCE: 9/10 — VERY HIGH Kenya's health ministry reported no additional infections after 293 tests following a fatal imported Ebola case. Contact tracing and monitoring continue. SOURCE (Reuters, 11 October): https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/kenya-finds-no-new-ebola-cases-after-293-tests-2026-10-11/ 6. NAMIBIA — Veterinary fence construction starts to contain foot-and-mouth disease IMPORTANCE: 8/10 — HIGH Namibia began construction of a cordon fence along the Orange River. Officials reported 17 affected farms in the ||Kharas region and expect fence completion within four months. SOURCE (The Namibian, 11 October): https://www.namibian.com.na/fmd-fence-construction-begins-in-kharas/ 7. NIGERIA — Lagos targets 3,000 MW electricity supply by March 2027 IMPORTANCE: 8/10 — HIGH Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced plans to raise Lagos electricity supply from below 1,000 MW to more than 3,000 MW using grid power, independent projects and embedded generation. This is a target, not delivered capacity. SOURCE (Premium Times, 11 October): https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/916178-sanwo-olu-targets-3000mw-electricity-supply-for-lagos-by-march-2027.html 8. UGANDA — Digital-finance fraud losses highlighted IMPORTANCE: 8/10 — HIGH The EastAfrican reported 6,533 financial-fraud cases in January–August 2026, with approximately 23.5 billion Ugandan shillings lost. The findings underline risks to banks and mobile-money users. SOURCE (The EastAfrican, 11 October): https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/business-tech/how-scammers-are-stealing-from-ugandans-5627280 9. EGYPT–MALAYSIA — Leaders discuss regional security and economic cooperation President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim discussed regional conflicts and signed four cooperation memoranda concerning women's empowerment, higher education, tourism and investment. SOURCE (Africanews/AP, 11 October): https://www.africanews.com/2026/10/11/egypt-and-malaysia-discuss-political-settlement-to-middle-east-conflict/ 10. CEUTA / MOROCCO–SPAIN — Police clear migrant beach camp Spanish police cleared the remaining major beach encampment in Ceuta before a royal visit. Migrants were transported to reception centres for processing, while some fled the operation. SOURCE (Africanews/AFP, 11 October): https://www.africanews.com/2026/10/11/spainish-police-clear-last-ceuta-migrant-beach-camp-ahead-of-kings-visit/ #AfricaNews #AfricaDailyNews #AfricaDailyReport #TopNewsOfAfrica #AfricaNews2026 #AfricaOctober2026 #AfricanPolitics #AfricanEconomy #AfricanSecurity #Djibouti #DjiboutiBoatDisaster #DjiboutiMigrantTragedy #139MigrantsDead #Obock #DjiboutiYemenMigration #IOM #MigrationCrisis #HornOfAfrica #Kenya #KenyaEbola #EbolaOutbreak #EbolaTesting #EbolaContactTracing #DRCongo #AfricanPublicHealth #Sudan #SudanEgyptBorder #SudanAirstrike #SudanGoldMineAttack #SudanConflict #Ethiopia #TigrayConflict #Mekelle #EthiopiaEritrea #Eritrea #UNSecurityCouncil #AbiyAhmed #Namibia #FootAndMouthDisease #NamibiaLivestock #OrangeRiver #Nigeria #Lagos #NigeriaElectricity #Lagos3000MW #EnergyInfrastructure #Uganda #DigitalFinanceFraud #MobileMoneyFraud #AfricanCybersecurity #Egypt #Malaysia #EgyptMalaysiaRelations #AbdelFattahElSisi #AnwarIbrahim #InternationalCooperation #Morocco #Spain #Ceuta #MoroccoSpainMigration #MigrantCrisis #HumanitarianCrisis #AfricanGeopolitics #AfricanDevelopment #RegionalSecurity #AfricaToday #AfricaTomorrow #WRLD #WRLDorg

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Luciano Magaldi Sardella (PhD) 16h

LETTERE MERIDIANE — “TEATRO-EDICOLA” OF SAN SEVERO CONQUERS THE WORLD SOURCE: https://www.letteremeridiane.org/2026/10/il-teatro-edicola-di-san-severo-conquista-il-mondo/?fbclid=IwY2xjawU4oqFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mAXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR5rVEwYs6UUXg7v-P0SyIQ_DRb_F6ZiY58OcseYoV4J7atcTiERnhWaqKM2pw_aem_Njle1jq1XLzHr93KLBUcVA After “Broadway World”, the “Los Angeles Journal”, “The Psychologist (British Psychological Association)” and Hollywood Beat Magazine, its “academic consecration” has now arrived courtesy of Stanford University. As I have already emphasised in my article on the revival of the GIO Festival in Foggia, celebrated by BroadwayWorld for the world stage premiere of the Giordano’s opera Marina (1888), the province of Foggia has long ceased to be peripheral. It happens when it finds an idea that shifts the coordinates: well, in San Severo, 40 kilometres from Foggia, it has happened again. Only this time an orchestra was not needed; six chairs were enough. The celebrated Teatro-Edicola of San Severo artistic director Francesco Gravino of the theatre company Foyer ’97 has been featured in the academic journal “Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR)” as an academic case study. The news, relayed on 19 September 2026 by ANSA Nazionale, looked like a misprint. Then it became clear that it was not. SSIR, an award-winning publication covering multisectoral solutions to global problems, included the project in its Dispatches section with the reportage “The Six-Seat Revolution”. It is the inverse trajectory to that of the GIO Festival: not a forgotten opera returning to a grand historic Italian horseshoe theatre, but an entire theatre reborn inside a disused place, forgotten by man. There are moments when past and future intertwine to create something visionary, innovative, artistically “revolutionary”: San Severo experienced one of those moments on the morning of 27 March 2026, during World Theatre Day, when the shutter of a newsstand closed for six years in Via Matteo Tondi was reopened “not to sell newspapers, but to offer stirring stories”, to quote Gravino’s motto. The idea of the visionary Francesco Gravino, artistic director, stage director and actor of the San Severo company Foyer ’97, active for at least 30 years in Capitanata, centred on the kiosk, hexagonal in metal and glass, granted free of charge by its owner Pino Frau, by now an urban relic created by the publishing crisis of the early 2000s: today in Italy active newsstands have fallen from about 35,000 in 2005 to about 20,000 in 2024, a decline of 42.8%. Gravino and eleven other actors restructured it in two weeks of work, without institutional funding, and transformed it into what is now under examination by the London commission of Guinness World Records as the “world’s smallest theatre”. The formula is deliberately austere: six spectators at a time outside, actors inside at less than a metre’s distance, 15-minute performances, continuous rotation from 11:00 to 20:45, texts ranging from Goldoni to Chekhov, from Ibsen to Dacia Maraini. On the door a QR code with an original theatrical warning: “Warning! This QR code transforms passers-by into actors. Scan only if ready.” The numbers immediately showed that it was no boutade: more than 60 people in a single afternoon, three inaugural days that sold out. But above all a positive echo that went beyond the borders of San Severo. “Broadway World” (just as in the previous case of the GIO Festival), the world’s most influential theatre criticism outlet with over 5.5 million monthly views, devoted exclusive coverage to it on 27 April 2026: “An Abandoned Italian Newsstand Just Became the World’s Smallest Theatre”. Not a mere listing, but an analysis: “There is no foyer, there is no balcony, there is no grid. There is barely a wing. What there is is something almost unrecognisable as an evening at the theatre, and for that very reason it is all the more powerful.” “Broadway World” captured Gravino’s manifesto idea: “This is a theatre of proximity. In an era of digital distance, we are putting human contact back at the centre,” framing it as “More than a clever exercise in site-specific theatre. It is a reappropriation.” All of this, in a Mezzogiorno of Italy often narrated only in terms of organised crime and marginalisation. To that seal of approval was added another, even more disorienting for a newsstand in San Severo: the “Los Angeles Journal”, one of the most influential publications on the West Coast for the performing arts. On 12 May 2026, it headlined thus: “San Severo’s Teatro-Edicola as an Innovative Model for Los Angeles Theaters?” opening as follows: “In a city in southern Italy that Hollywood has never heard of, a theatre director has just built the smallest stage in the world: six seats, fifteen minutes, zero distance. Los Angeles should pay attention.” The “Los Angeles Journal” does not indulge in folklore, but places the kiosk in Via Matteo Tondi alongside the prestigious 1,600-seat Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, the Pantages of Broadway in Hollywood, the 99-seat plan of Rogue Machine, the Odyssey, the Victory Theatre and the Hollywood Fringe. It even recalls Ethan Marks’s Electrical Box Theatre, a veritable electrical box lined with red velvet in downtown Los Angeles, to argue that Gravino has taken to the extreme the question Los Angeles has been asking itself for decades: How small can a stage become before it ceases to be a stage? And it recognizes the San Severo urban model: almost zero cost, two weeks of work and six chairs, in return for immediate provincial, regional and national media coverage, recognition by the San Severo’s Municipal Administration, and a format exportable anywhere. Then, the third American piece came from “Hollywood Beat Magazine” on 20 April 2026: Six seats. Fifteen minutes. One actor. No stage. The magazine recounts the kiosk in Via Tondi left disused for almost six years, the contemporary six-seat cultural outpost, placing Francesco Gravino in a distinguished genealogy: Richard Schechner and environmental theatre, Jerzy Grotowski and poor theatre, Nicolas Bourriaud and relational aesthetics. But it closes with pragmatism: it is not a thesis, it is fixing a street corner, that is, repairing an urban street corner by asking not how large a theatre can become, but how small it must become again to recover its original power. And finally, the celebrated London-based “The Psychologist”, the journal of the “British Psychological Society (BPS)”, the oldest psychological society in the world, transformed the Teatro-Edicola into a scientific case study: on 30 July 2026 it published “The world’s smallest theatre — and Psychologists’ next act”, starting from the same detail, the morning of 27 March when the metal shutter of the hexagonal kiosk in Via Tondi reopened after six years, six people inside, an actor at less than a metre’s distance beginning Chekhov. It describes the formula: six spectators, 15 minutes, 11 actors over 10 hours, from Goldoni to Euripides, inside a kiosk where the fourth wall does not break because architecturally it never existed. But the BPS goes a step further: it cites the 2025 studies by Damien Gabriel in IBRO Neuroscience Reports, that live performance generates measurably stronger emotional and physiological activation than video, and introduces Edward Hall’s proxemics: below one metre is intimate space, reserved for doctors, close friends, lovers. In that one-square-metre space, the actor’s breath is audible, micro-expressions legible, the self-other boundary becomes permeable. The Teatro-Edicola “does not make theatre better, it makes it inevitable”. And it is here that one understands why Stanford is studying it as an academic case study in social innovation, not as a case of artistic originality. In Italy, meanwhile, the national media circuit had already picked up the phenomenon: RaiNews — TG2 Storie brought it to RaiDue at midnight on 19 April. RTL 102.5 devoted space to the format conceived by Gravino and developed by Foyer ’97 in the heart of San Severo in Via Tondi, defining it as a permanent micro-stage capable of bringing theatre into public space. ANSA.it, Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, La Repubblica, TG2000, Radio Capital, Swiss RSI, ANSA Brazil and many others followed. And for the record: Fiorello praised it in La Pennicanza as an artistic case inspired by his Edicola Fiore, and Biagio Antonacci, on his tour in the Augustan amphitheatre of Lucera, made a “fact-finding” stop at the Teatro-Edicola singing the celebrated and nostalgic Iris in front of an audience certainly larger than the “six seats”. Francesco Gravino’s theatre company Foyer ’97 was not born yesterday: behind it lie the Teatro-Cantina of 2016, the underground theatre, and in 2011 a performance on the bell tower of a church in the centre of San Severo at 45 metres high. The Teatro-Edicola completes, in Gravino’s words, “the entire vertical extension of theatre: underground, street level, rooftop”. And it is preparing for its thirtieth anniversary in 2027 aiming to purchase the kiosk to make it permanent, exporting the “San Severo Model” to Rome, Lucca, and to the festivals of Santarcangelo and Todi. As with the GIO Festival, someone might dare to claim that it is merely a stunt, but when BroadwayWorld places you alongside the Los Angeles Opera House, the “Los Angeles Journa”l proposes you as a model for Hollywood, “Hollywood Beat Magazine” reads you through Grotowski and the “British Psychological Society” uses you to explain mirror neurones, it is no longer a stunt but an excellent artistic and academic positioning. To those who still whisper that Foggia and Capitanata are provincial, the answer is now written on two opposite and complementary fronts: on 5 June in Foggia a 138-year-old opera found the stage again at the Giordano ending up on BroadwayWorld; on 27 March in San Severo a 4-square-metre kiosk invented a stage that did not exist, ending up at Stanford, in Los Angeles, in Hollywood and in London. The periphery, when it has a precise idea, becomes the centre. Even with six chairs. Luciano Magaldi Sardella

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Dyab Abou Jahjah 4d

The author argued that medical care at the Sde Teiman camp had been used to disguise cruelty, turning medicine into a tool of torture. They said doctors involved had betrayed their oath, profession and medical ethics, and should be held accountable.

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Stefania Maurizi 6d

The author said Julian Assange, WikiLeaks journalists, their lawyers and doctors, and other journalists were awaiting the criminal trial of UC Global, which they alleged had spied on them on behalf of the CIA. The author added that a disruption to their communications, which they had hoped would be resolved, remained ongoing. https://t.co/FaLQcbl0aY #Assange #WikiLeaks #CIA #US

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Bartosz Fiałek 1w

The author wrote that a man had foreseen the shortage of doctors in Poland seven years earlier and shared a link. https://t.co/gWktyIQpqK #zdrowie #Polska #przyszłość #PL

Krzysztof Graj 1w

Africa Daily Report — 4 October 2026 Major developments reported during the previous 24 hours. 1. Ethiopia — Federal forces retake Mekelle airport as Tigray fighting escalates Ethiopian federal forces have retaken Alula Aba Nega Airport in Mekelle, according to residents and other sources cited by Reuters and AP. The airport had been seized by Tigrayan forces on September 23. Gunfire was reported near central Mekelle, and the renewed conflict is putting the 2022 Pretoria peace agreement under severe strain amid wider tensions involving Eritrea and other regional states. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/pro-government-forces-say-they-retake-airport-ethiopias-tigray-region-2026-10-03/ https://apnews.com/article/87740d41b686614b63ccdba54dbd3168 2. DR Congo — France pledges stronger Ebola support as outbreak remains severe Importance: 10/10 — Critical France says it will step up financial support for the Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of Congo. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot made the announcement during a visit to Bunia, amid concern that gains against the outbreak could reverse. France contributed €13.4 million to Ebola-related efforts from January through July and plans to seek additional funding. The announcement comes as Congo's outbreak has surpassed 4,000 deaths. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/france-step-up-ebola-funding-congo-amid-resurgence-fears-minister-says-2026-10-03/ https://apnews.com/article/4c79b59ec81a08675d2506c9e176d125 3. Sudan — More than 25 civilians reported killed in North Kordofan Importance: 10/10 — Critical The Sudan Doctors Network says more than 25 civilians were killed in an attack attributed to the Rapid Support Forces in the Umm Badr area of North Kordofan. The medical group said available evidence indicated that civilians may have been targeted on ethnic grounds and called for an independent investigation. Fighting has intensified in Kordofan as the Sudanese Armed Forces and RSF contest territory. Source: https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/665071/world/more-than-25-civilians-killed-in-rsf-attack-in-sudans-north-kordofan 4. Nigeria — 15 civilians killed in suspected Boko Haram/ISWAP attack in Borno Importance: 9/10 — Very High Borno State police confirmed that 15 people were killed in Marte Local Government Area after suspected Boko Haram/ISWAP militants attacked farmers and people gathering firewood. Three people remained missing. The attack underlines the continuing threat to civilians and rural livelihoods in northeastern Nigeria despite prolonged counter-insurgency operations. Source: https://punchng.com/terrorists-kill-15-farmers-in-borno/ 5. Kenya — $16 billion Dangote Lamu refinery faces new legal challenge Importance: 9/10 — Very High The proposed $16 billion Dangote oil refinery in Lamu is facing a further legal challenge. The Consumers Federation of Kenya is seeking to halt government participation until questions concerning procurement, financing, Kenya's proposed stake and public-land arrangements are clarified. Separately, an Environment and Land Court has issued interim orders affecting activity on land designated for the project. The refinery is planned at 700,000 barrels per day and would be one of East Africa's largest industrial investments. Source: https://energynews.africa/2026/10/03/dangotes-16bn-kenya-refinery-faces-legal-challenge/ 6. Burkina Faso — First national gold refinery marks push for domestic processing Importance: 8/10 — High Burkina Faso has inaugurated its first national gold refinery, RAFFINOR-BF, in Ouagadougou. The project is designed to allow more of the country's gold to be refined and certified domestically rather than exported for processing abroad. Reported initial capacity is 164 tonnes annually, with expansion plans that could also position Burkina Faso as a regional refining centre. Source: https://www.theafricandream.net/burkina-first-gold-refinery/ 7. South Africa — AU human-rights mission concludes with preliminary findings The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights completed a promotion mission to South Africa. Its preliminary assessment described the country's legal framework for protecting human and peoples' rights, including those of non-nationals, as comprehensive. The mission took place against a backdrop of domestic concern about violent crime, migration tensions and gender-based violence. Source: https://www.sanews.gov.za/south-africa/au-human-rights-mission-sa-concludes 8. Nigeria / South Africa — Nigeria evacuates another 106 citizens amid anti-migrant tensions Importance: 8/10 — High *Another 106 Nigerian citizens arrived in Lagos from South Africa as concerns continue over xenophobic and Afrophobic violence and intimidation. Nigeria has urged South African authorities to protect foreign nationals, while Pretoria has stressed that immigration enforcement is a state responsibility and warned against vigilantism. The episode continues to put pressure on relations between two of Africa's largest economies. Source: https://thewillnews.com/xenophobia-nigeria-evacuates-106-more-from-south-africa-as-anti-migrant-tensions-escalate/ 9. Sudan — Fighting spreads in Blue Nile near Ethiopian border Importance: 9/10 — Very High Sudan's military says it repelled an attack by the RSF and allied SPLM-N forces around Minza and Bashkarkad in Blue Nile state near Ethiopia. The clashes followed RSF drone strikes on targets in Ed Damazin. The International Organization for Migration has reported displacement of roughly 7,000 people from affected areas since late September, adding another front to Sudan's prolonged war. The RSF and SPLM-N had not immediately commented on the military's account. Source: https://sudantribune.com/article/319554 10. Somalia — Navy intercepts vessel with seven foreign nationals off Hobyo Importance: 7/10 — High Somali naval and coastal defence forces intercepted a vessel off Hobyo whose Automatic Identification System was reportedly switched off. Seven foreign nationals were detained while authorities investigate the vessel's registration, cargo and purpose. The operation comes amid Somalia's efforts to strengthen maritime surveillance and combat illegal fishing and other illicit activity along its coastline. Source: https://somalilandstandard.com/somali-navy-seizes-boat-carrying-seven-foreigners-in-hobyo/ #Africa #AfricaNews #TopNewsOfAfrica #DRCongo #Ebola #EbolaOutbreak #Bunia #France #PublicHealth #HealthEmergency #Nigeria #Borno #BokoHaram #ISWAP #Terrorism #CivilianProtection #Ethiopia #Tigray #Mekelle #Conflict #Security #HornOfAfrica #Sudan #NorthKordofan #RegionalStability #Geopolitics

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NEW: RFK Jr. says Medicare spending on wound care patches exploded from $200 million in 2019 to $14 billion last year: "It's all stolen." Bad actors billed Medicare billions by slapping the most expensive skin grafts on elderly and dying patients who didn't need them. "The doctors who prescribed them would get 6% of the sales cost. And so, they were incentivized to prescribe more expensive products. In Europe, they spend 35 cents a cubic inch. We were spending $135, and that went up to $2,000 a cubic inch." "So 2019, we were paying $200 million. Last year we spent 14 billion. All stolen. It's all stolen. And we were on track to spend 23 billion this year." "We put an end to it, and we now have driven that cost down to somewhere around a billion dollars." In one Arizona case, the owners of two wound care companies pleaded guilty to more than $1.2 billion in fraudulent claims. Medicare paid over $1 million per patient for grafts slapped on elderly patients who didn't need them, many of them dying in hospice. In June, DOJ charged 11 more defendants over more than $2 billion in allograft claims, including a company accused of issuing sham invoices to inflate what Medicare paid. It feels like every week I learn a new way people were ripping off taxpayers for billions. https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/2105375659401035868

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Sven Clement 2w

A vaccine being free in principle is not enough if the reimbursement procedure is unclear. 💉🤔 Patients and doctors should know exactly how eligible people can access the RSV vaccine without paying out of pocket! #PublicHealth #Vaccination #RSV #CNS #HealthcareAccess #Seniors #PublicHealth #Vaccination #HealthcareAccess #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

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Bartosz Fiałek 2w

AI will not replace doctors. It will make us dramatically more effective - from prevention and early detection to diagnosis and treatment. And its biggest impact may go even further: accelerating drug discovery and development, helping us find better treatments for diseases we #AI #Healthcare #MedicalInnovation #Therearenospecificcountrycodesmentionedinthetweet.

yas 2w

@doctorsmohan Ouai j’ai voulu dire GUEUX qui est un mot français. Pas de notre faute si vous savez parler qu’une seule langue bande de guignols #français #langue #communication

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Bartosz Fiałek 2w

This is happening in Poland. The Polish government has approved a bill that would publish doctors’ names together with the financial terms of their bids in a central online database - including healthcare providers operating under private legal forms. Transparency of public #Poland #Healthcare #Transparency #PL

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Bartosz Fiałek 3w

Yesterday, a passenger lost consciousness on LOT flight LO721. Three of us - two doctors and a nurse - stepped in. The crew handled it extremely well and she fully recovered. One problem: I tried to check her glucose, but the glucometer had no working battery. Medical equipment #LOTFlight #MedicalEmergency #HealthcareProfessionals #PL

Oliver Varhelyi 4w

Europe faces a shortage of over 1 million health professionals. We are acting. Through prevention, digitalisation & AI, we are working to support Member States, ease pressure on health systems&give doctors and nurses more time for patients. More in my @Europarl_EN intervention⬇️ https://t.co/rMB6Smar32 #HealthCare #DigitalHealth #AIinHealth #EU

Bartosz Fiałek 4w

Mild traumatic brain injuries are often missed. Doctors diagnosed or suspected mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in 21% of patients with closed head injury, while 41% met the ACRM diagnostic criteria. This means that, in this retrospective cohort, more than half of the cases https://t.co/caxDdokqt0 #mTBI #BrainInjury #HealthCare #Nospecificcountriesarementionedinthetweet.Therefore #theresponseis:

Katarina Mathernova 🇪🇺 4w

Today, one of the loudest rounds of applause in the European Parliament belonged to a ten year old Ukrainian girl. Sasha Paskal was six when a russian missile destroyed her home in the Odesa region. A concrete slab crushed her leg. She spent 15 days in a coma and doctors had to https://t.co/Pt1tVXolU3 #UkrainianGirl #EuropeanParliament #StandWithUkraine #UA #RU #EU

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Oliver Varhelyi 4w

A strong message for health in President Ursula @vonderleyen’s #SOTEU26: 🇪🇺 must turn its world-class health data into better prevention, earlier diagnosis & better care through 𝗔𝗜. AI should empower our doctors, not replace them. https://t.co/ADfhrQVSFb #Health #AI #SOTEU26 #EU

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Maija Haavisto 4w

In Finland, treating CFS/ME is basically illegal after it cost some doctors their license. Similar consequences for thyroid meds. Now an influencer died involving a plastic surgery clinic in Helsinki. Known for years to e.g. reuse disposable surgical equipment. That was fine. #Finland #CFS #PlasticSurgery #FI

Maarten Boudry Sep 4

For three years, Israel has repeated that Hamas and PIJ are disguising as "journalist", "doctors", "healthcare workers" and "paramedics", because they know that this disguise offers them some measure of protection, and that their death will cause outrage among credulous #Israel #Hamas #Disguise #IL