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  • Junior doctors across England will walk out for five days from July 13, in what is said to be the longest single period of industrial action in the history of the National Health Service (NHS).  Last week, more than 47,000 junior doctors, all members of the British Medical Association (BMA), staged a 72-hour strike from…

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  • A nurses strike “isn’t about nurses being greedy”, says RCN general secretary and chief executive Pat Cullen. Ms Cullen says the organisation isn’t currently in negotiation with the government, as it “hasn’t engaged”. “We have made multiple attempts to try and engage with the health secretary,” she says. “The current one, and the previous one…

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  • A dissatisfied hospital management at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital has threatened to release a total of 200 metally ill patients on the streets today. The action will serve as a warning to the government for lack of logitics, inadequate funding and lack of medications. According to a local media report, two hundred lunatics will be returned…

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  • Two Catholic nuns were found dead in their Mississippi home, after they reportedly skipped work at a nearby hospital. Both nurses died on Thursday, authorities said. One nun is a member of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Kentucky. The other is part of the School Sisters of St. Francis in Milwaukee. Their bodies were taken…

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  • In an act of carelessness, nurses at a hospital (Walsall Manor Hospital) failed to replace an IV drip from a cancer-stricken patient for 2 days. The omission led to his death, reports say.

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