Detoxification

Embarking on a digital detox is not about rejecting technology altogether but rather about establishing a healthier relationship with it

In a first for Greece, a farm exclusively for substance abusers, who will be able to work in agriculture as part of their drug addiction program to gain skills they can use after they "graduate," is being planned by the Health Ministry.

Senior official with Romania's Ministry of Health Horatiu Moldovan said on Tuesday that there is talk of changing the country's COVID-19 testing strategy, given that in two weeks' time there could be more than 7,000 tests per day. He said that an increase in the number of tests for the frontline doctors and dialysis patients is being considered.

As many as 72 medical staff of the nephrology unit of the Sf. Ioan Hospital in Bucharest have been put in isolation after a patient tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the Health Ministry reported on Wednesday in a press statement. Nine residents working at the same unit were also put in isolation.

Health Minister Kiril Ananiyev attended the inauguration of the new CT scanner, for which the ministry allocated nearly BGN 600,000, and the presentation of the newly renovated and equipped with new medical equipment Department of Dialysis Treatment at the MBAL - Dobrich.

Iran plans to open 150 alcohol treatment centres, a health ministry official said on Monday, in an acknowledgement of the scale of abuse in a country where drinking is illegal.

The head of the ministry's drug abuse department, Dr Alireza Norouzi, told the ISNA news agency that the 150 day centres would provide special settings and educational courses to help people give up alcohol.

World-renowned top model Naomi Campbell will sign a partnership agreement with the owner of a detox center in the western province of Muğla's popular resort city Bodrum. She has decided to become a partner after her attempt to acquire the entirety of the business, called The Detoks Bay, was rejected by its Turkish owner, Sedat Akdemir.