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Stateside summit
Betty Henderson
THE Spanish President, Pedro Sánchez, travelled to Washington DC on Thursday, May 11 ahead of a meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House on Friday, May 12. This highly anticipated meeting aimed to strengthen bilateral relations between Spain and the United States and pave the way for significant agreements, including discussions about the 1966
Palomares nuclear accident in Almeria. The meeting comes at a significant moment in relations for the two countries after Spain recently agreed to a migration deal with the US, meaning that it will welcome refugees from several South and Central American countries to help the US deal with its border crisis.
Spain and Canada have both agreed to house processing centres for refugees to submit asylum applications. Other topics on the agenda included the conflict in Ukraine, climate change, EU and US relations and global democracy.
Before meeting with the President, Sánchez first headed to the Spanish Ambassador’s residence where authorities held a ceremony in honour of the former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi.
“The implantation of a pacemaker in neonatal age is performed through a surgical access, since percutaneous implantation, the normal procedure in adults, is not possible,” he continued.
In order to perform this operation, the surgeons had to take into account that the pacemakers currently available are designed only for use in adults, which means their size is large for a neonate.
As a result, the one that was been implanted was an adaptation of the smallest existing pacemaker.
THE luck of the Irish was smiling down on a Spanish motor cyclist on May 14 as six Dublin firefighters were heading for Malaga Airport after attending a course in Sevilla.
As they were driving along the A92 near to the town of Alcala de Guadaira which is about 17 kilometres outside of Sevilla they saw that the biker had just fallen from his motorbike so as trained personnel they sprang into action.
They set up a protected area, posted signs and got on with finding what they could do to help the middleaged biker who was unconscious, with multiple injuries and couldn’t breathe.
The team of paramedics managed to stabilise the in
