Tag: health
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Ecuador police arrest gang members who stormed hospital
Ecuadorean security forces have arrested 68 gang members after they stormed a hospital in the town of Yaguachi, in Guayas province. Officials said the men tried to take over the facility, at which a member of their gang was receiving treatment. Police said the intruders’ aim was to guard the patient from potential attacks from…
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Premier has no regrets about ramping pledge
Premier Peter Malinauskas says he doesn’t regret Labor’s 2022 election promise to “fix the ramping crisis”, in the wake of a man’s death after waiting 10 hours for an ambulance – but reminded South Australians that he had also said it would take a full four years. Close to home, this rampant neoliberal fascist thinks…
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Texas doctors do not need to perform emergency abortions, court rules
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that Texas hospitals and doctors are not obligated to perform abortions under a long-standing national emergency-care law, dealing a blow to the White House’s strategy to ensure access to the procedure after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion in 2022. The federal law “does not mandate…