WASHINGTON, July 29, 2023 (AFP) – An American nurse and her child have been kidnapped in Haiti, a Christian aid group said Saturday, days after the US government ordered its nonessential personnel out of the impoverished Caribbean country due to spiraling insecurity. Alix Dorsainvil and her child were kidnapped Thursday morning near Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, El Roi Haiti said in a statement on its website. She is the wife of the group’s director, who is […]
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‘Help wanted’: businesses struggle to fill jobs
PARIS, France (AFP) – Germany has a shortage of plumbers. The United States needs more postal workers. Australia is lacking engineers. In Canada, hospitals are looking for more nurses. “The Great Resignation” that countries have experienced since Covid pandemic restrictions were eased is not over yet. Michael Blume, chief executive of a software company in eastern Germany, said he had “a lot of difficulties finding workers”. “Wherever we look, we are lacking qualified workers,” Blume, […]
Queen gives UK’s health service top award, praises Covid vaccine rollout
London, United Kingdom (AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE) Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday awarded the George Cross to the state-run National Health Service (NHS) for its work over the past 74 years and praised its Covid-19 vaccine rollout. The George Cross is the highest non-military award for gallantry bestowed by the British government. The queen presented the medal to health leaders from across the UK. They were joined at the ceremony by frontline workers, who nursed the […]
WATCH: NY nurse manager talks about effects of crisis on dialysis patients
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (Eagle News) — Eagle News International, Las Vegas, interviews a nurse manager from Rogosin Institute, Queens Dialysis Center, New York.
Germany tries ‘serial killer’ nurse over worst post-war spree
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German nurse Niels Hoegel, already serving a lengthy term for previous killings, will go on trial before anguished relatives Tuesday over the murders of around 100 more people — a spree prosecutors say is unprecedented in the post-war period. The 41-year-old is accused of intentionally administering medical overdoses to patients in his care in order to be able to bring them back to life at the last moment. He rarely […]
Life in jail for serial killer Canadian nurse
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — A former nurse who confessed to murdering eight elderly residents who were under her care at retirement homes in eastern Canada was sentenced Monday to life in prison. Elizabeth Wettlaufer faced a possible 200 years in jail, but the judge in Canada’s Ontario province opted for eight concurrent sentences with no parole for at least 25 years. The stout, bespectacled 50-year-old came forward and admitted having fatally injected her victims with […]
PRC reveals November 2016 NLE Passers
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced on Wednesday, December 14, the list of passers for the November 2016 Nurse Licensure Examination (NLE). The NLE which was administered by the PRC and the Board of Nursing (BoN) was held on November 26-27, in different testing centers nationwide such as Manila, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Legaspi, Lucena, Pagadian, Tacloban, Tuguegarao and Zamboanga. As announced by the PRC, 6,836 examinees passed the NLE out […]
Nurse’s Week
For over the years, decades and centuries, they devoted their lives in taking care of others. Their patience, their tenderness and their kindness, is exceptional and everlasting. Let’s celebrate and see how far they have come… in the path that they chose to follow; A continuous virtue. An endless devotion. The last week of October is the Nurses’ Week Infographics designed by Dexter Magno Research by Monica Llanera, Editing by MRFaith Bonalos Can’t see the […]
Nurse’s Week
For over the years, decades and centuries, they devoted their lives in taking care of others. Their patience, their tenderness and their kindness, is exceptional and everlasting. Let’s celebrate and see how far they have come… in the path that they chose to follow; A continuous virtue. An endless devotion. The last week of October is the Nurses’ Week Infographics designed by Dexter Magno Research by Monica Llanera, Editing by MRFaith Bonalos
Family member of nurse from Saudi isolated for possible MERS-CoV infection
GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Sept. 4 (PNA) — The Department of Health (DOH) in Region 12 has sent to the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) in Davao City for isolation and testing a close family member of a nurse from Banga town in South Cotabato who tested positive of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Corono Virus (MERS-CoV) before returning home from Saudi Arabia last week. Dr. Alah Baby Vingno, chief of the DOH Region 12’s regional epidemiology […]





