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The Athens Medical Association accused the Health Ministry on Wednesday of putting patients’ health in danger by allowing nurses to prescribe some basic medicines when they are treating patients at home.
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A hospital building in Istanbul was evacuated after the construction of a nearby parking lot caused fractures to appear in the building.

A report prepared by the Turkish Public Health Agency's Department of Cancer outlining the average life expectancy of cancer patients has stirred debate among the country's medical community.

The Turkish Green Crescent Society (Ye?ilay), an organization that endeavors to protect society and its youth from "harmful habits," has added "prostitution, technology and gambling" to its list of habits, as it prepares to receive more government funding into its budget.

The new rulebook produced by the Health Ministry that instructs doctors how they should counsel those who are seeking an abortion looks more like a guide for applying psychological pressure on women to change their minds, medical professionals told BIRN.

The Health Ministry is poised to introduce fines for doctors who exceed prescription limits and pharmacies that fail to provide generic medicines wherever possible.

Kathimerini understands that the measures will be included in a large draft law that the ministry is preparing with the aim of tying up a number of loose ends in the health sector.

A court in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa has ordered the Health Ministry to pay 1.4 million Turkish Liras in compensation to a seven-year-old boy, who was injected with HIV-tainted blood in 2008 in a public hospital.

Bulgaria has registered 195 new cases of HIV-positive people in the period 1 January- 21 November 2014, according to Health Ministry data.

The newly-registered cases of people carrying the virus that causes AIDS have taken the official total number of people with HIV/AIDS in Bulgaria to 2,025, the ministry said in a statement marking the World AIDS Day on Monday.

Bulgaria's Health Minister Petar Moskov has vowed to present a plan for reform in the sector by end-November.

Moskov, as cited by dnevnik.bg, made clear that the plan would highlight spheres in which the country was lagging behind other EU Member States, including the health of mothers and children, where the mortality rate was higher than the EU average.

Alternate Health Minister Leonidas Grigorakos on Wednesday proposed that a 5-euro fee that patients pay for outpatient treatment at state hospitals be scrapped and the lost revenue offset by other measures such as increasing taxes on tobacco products and alcohol.