Health

BELGRADE - The floods in Serbia have not led to an increased occurrence of infectious intestinal diseases, but a certain amount of risk is still there, Bojana Grgic, head of the Department for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control at the Milan Jovanovic Batut Public Health Institute, told Tanjug on Friday.

The AB Vassilopoulos supermarket chain on Thursday announced that it was removing a corn wafer product trading under the name AB BIO, with an expiry date of 27/01/2015, from its shelves after tests on samples revealed high traces of vomitoxin, also known as deoxynivalenol, or DON.

Bulgarian healthcare workers across the country are staging a one-hour symbolic protest against the insufficient funding for the sector.

The protest is part of an EU-wide initiative aimed at demanding better working conditions, better pay for medical workers and an efficient fight against corruption in the sector.

A two-year-old boy diagnosed with diabetic ketoacidosis, a potentially life-threatening complication stemming from diabetes, was airlifted from the Cycladic island of Myconos early on Wednesday.

Staff at clinical laboratories working with Greece’s main health provider, EOPYY, are expected to end the suspension of their activities and return to providing their services to insured patients following a meeting with Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis on Wednesday.

The meeting was the third between the two parties.

Hospital in north warns of shortage of medical supplies

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Kosovska Mitrovica Healthcare Center head Milan Ivanović said on Tuesday their surgical and blood transfusion program "was under threat."

The reason, Ivanović stated, was the fact "Kosovo customs had confiscated medicines a few days earlier."

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Head of the Health Centre in Kosovska Mitrovica Dr Milan Ivanovic said on Tuesday that the surgical and blood transfusion programme of that institution in northern Kosovo was under threat, because the Kosovo customs had confiscated medicines a few days earlier.

Around 1500 school-leavers from 11 Bulgarian high schools donated their prom  money to the “Butterfly children”, said the Destructive Creation art group. 

To popularize their initiative the school-leavers made paper butterflies and placed them around the Sofia center. 

Public hospitals will operate with skeleton staff on Wednesday due to a strike by employees.

A protest is due to take place at noon outside the Health Ministry to protest a range of issues, including the lack of spending on public healthcare.

It is hard to imagine cold, wet London being a very comfortable home to exotic reptiles.

But, according to the London Independent, at least 30 tree-climbing Aesculupian snakes, which hail from the Balkans and can grow up to two metres in length, have been spotted in recent weeks in the Regent’s Canal area, which adjoins London Zoo.