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ISSUE NO. 1369
29 SEPTEMBER - 5 OCTOBER 2011
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Hospital wing closure ‘sign of things to come’ By Nicole Hallett nicole@euroweeklynews.com THE closure a first-floor wing at Elche General Hospital has been denounced by the Junta de Personal, a committee representing staff at the facility.
The 26 beds were ‘temporarily’ closed before the summer due to the reduction in patients in the summer months. It is becoming evident that the wing may not be put back into operation, the committee claimed.
“We will not accept restrictive measures that threaten the public’s health services,” said personnel board representatives, as reported in Spanish newspaper Diario Informacion. Such cuts will only serve to ‘deteriorate’ the level of healthcare at the hospital rather than ‘improve its services and turn it into a major hospital in the south of Alicante Province’. They fear that the closure of the 26 hospital beds is just the beginning of a policy of cuts in health services, which they find totally unacceptable. “To date we have BEAUTY HITS THE STREETS: Contestants get a tour of Orihuela. received no explanations justifying these measures,” the personnel committee added. A meeting between the personnel board and THE Miss Intercontinental beauty Contestants come from 63 different hospital chiefs on competition will take place next countries on five continents. The Monday was postponed Friday, October 7, in Orihuela’s contest is said to be the third most at the last minute. Teatro Circo. important of its kind in the world.
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