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Mutual Union obtained a surplus of 113 million

mutual Union obtained a surplus of 11 ’ 3 million

the mutual closes the accounts of 2010 positive

the management of the entity, based on the reduction and control of spending, allow a surplus 3 ’ 9 times higher than in 2009. Integration into mutual Corporation explains, in part, the good results economic.

Spain, 2011-September during the fiscal year 2010, Union of mutual revenue amounted to 224 ’ EUR 7 million. The difference between revenue and expenditure resulted in a positive outcome of 11 ’ €3 million, the number of protected workers reached the 251.660 and the number of mutual companies added 45.517. In addition, it provided 11 million to the Ministry of labour.

Planning, the implementation of austerity measures, saving and spending controls have enabled the successful economic, by multiplying by 3 ’ 9 the results of 2009, the year in which 2 were ’ 9 million positive.

the managing director, Juan Enrique Blasco has stressed that, despite continuing installed in the economic crisis, “ mutual Union is making a great effort to maintain a good cash surplus to continue offering the highest quality in the health care benefits, personalized attention, and the extension of the preventive culture entrepreneursworkers and self-employed ”.

Blasco underscored the ongoing work of the mutual help businesses increase productivity, improve the health of workers, and seeking practical solutions to labour welfare involving all levels of the company.

In this regard, stresses the positive downward trend in accidents in mutual companies, with a decline of 6 ’ 6% in 2010 compared to 2009. Also, in the past two years, period 2008 to 2010, workplace accidents dropped a 29 ’ 1%.

According to the managing director, becoming part of Corporation is one of the reasons why mutual Union is achieving positive results. “ The combined entity to facilitate the implementation of economies of scale, which generates significant savings in costs and streamlining the management of resources ”.

Currently, Muta Corporation has established itself as a reference management within mutualism, represents 24% of market share, with the industry’s largest network of centres, consisting of 330 own centres and 650 concluded.

With the creation of a unique network of centers, mutual eight share their facilities for the provision of health assistance, which has avoided that 210,000 assists have been covered with outside media.

He has also enabled Corporation since 2008 have made 450,000 assists and medical evidence exchanged, which resulted in an estimated annual savings of 2 ’ of EUR 5 million.

This online sharing facilities, means and facilities is underway in the integration of the systems of management, technology and information systems, taking a position pioneer in the sector.

The eight mutual to form part of one larger entity can also obtain competitive advantages in the field of innovation and research. And it is what makes possible mutual Corporation, along with the Pompeu Fabra University and Institute of Association of work, environment and health, ISTS, they have created the Center for research in occupational health, CISAL, which is currently becoming national focal point in international in the field of research relating to occupational health.

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The autonomous communities should be at the end of the 2010 nearly 690 million euros to private hospitals

the autonomous communities should nearly 690 million euros to private hospitals at the end of the 2010

Madrid, September of 2011. The average period collection which had the private centres with the autonomous communities to 12 31, 2010 according to a study by the National Federation of clinics in 75 Spanish private hospitals was 160 days. In the same way the FNCP points out that this average collection period has worsened in 2011 in a substantial way.

Communities with a greater average of surveyed hospitals payment period were Extremadura with a 292 days of delay, with 271 days Madrid, Valencia, with 267 days and Castilla La Mancha with 263 days. On the other hand the autonomous communities with a better average collection period were Basque country with 53 days, Cantabria 83 days and Catalonia with 93 days.

Given that the turnover of the hospital sector private administrations was 1570 million euros in the year 2010 is estimated the debt at 31 December had the autonomous communities with private hospitals amounted to 688 million euros.

The employers regretted the serious non-compliance taking the greater part of the autonomous communities and urges Governments to take appropriate measures to resolve such a situation that this delay in payment by the Administration is causing serious tensions of Treasury to hospitals which puts at risk the economic viability of certain health centres.

The National Federation of private clinics is the patron of the hospital sector from the year 1977 and encompasses most of hospitals deprived of Spanish territory.

Andalusia 129 days
Aragón –
Asturias 105 days
Baleares 116 days
Canary 101 days
Cantabria 83 days
La Mancha 263 days
Castilla León 227 days
Catalonia 93 days
Extremadura 292 days
Galicia 109 days
271 days Madrid
Murcia 135 days
Navarra –
PaíBasque s 53 days
Rioja 163 days
Valencia 267 days

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The CECOVA advised that backpacks “do not exceed 15% of the weight of the student” and breakfast good to “guarantee optimal performance”

el CECOVA advised that backpacks “ do not exceed 15% of the weight of the student ” and breakfast good for “ ensure optimal performance ”

recommends that minors “ decrease intake of fats and simple sugars, saturated, contained mainly in the pastry, the “ snacks ” and soft drinks ”

Valencia, 2011-September the Council of nursing of the Comunitat Valenciana (CECOVA), the Spanish scientific society of nursing school (SCE3) and the colleges of nursing in Valencia, Castellón and Alicante recommended today, before the next start of the school year, which “ fits the weight of the backpacks to the physical characteristics of the students to avoid the appearance of muscle injury by overload which can lead to degenerative diseases or crónicas adult ”. The weight of the backpacks “ should not exceed 15% of the student body weight and volume should not be larger than the back ”.

The President of the SCE3 and coordinator of work group of nurses in health school (ENSE) of the CECOVA in Alicante, sea Ortiz sailing, pointed out that the weight of the backpacks to “ adapted to the age and size of the child ” and whereas, therefore, ” is inadvisable to use the same backpacks for several years ”. Otherwise, Ortiz noted that minors “ can suffer from muscular problems or overloading ” and recalled that “ there are 60 per cent of schoolchildren has at some point because of back pain, among other factors, to the excessive weight of the backpacks ”.

In this regard, the President of the SCE3 recalled that more than half of school children aged between 13 and 15 suffer back problems. Addition, more than 40% of children under 11 years are also this type of pathology. Frequently the vertebral column in school age alterations are 24.9 per cent of the cases shortening of muscles isquiotibial (back of the thigh); ahead of the lordosis (increase of lumbar curvature), which accounted for 18.7%, and the presence of a scoliosis (9.3%).

The main causes of these disorders are inappropriate in the classroom furniture using it interchangeably children of different ages; excessive burden of school backpacks; and also by a high sedentary lifestyle and the paucity of practice of sports activities has increased in children in recent years by the use of television and video game consoles.

The recommendations of the CECOVA collected that backpacks should not exceed under any circumstances a higher weight to 10 or 15% of their body weight, so that children not should carry in their backpacks school material above that amount. In addition, “ is advisable to have strips that can fasten on the abdomen or chest so that more muscle groups are used to carry it ”. In addition, the materials should be placed “ correctly in the upper part of the back ” and “ is advisable that the backpacks are cushioned and placed on both shoulders, and not only one, and supported in the dorsal area, with not overly long straps ”.

Breakfast

In the same way, also included a number of tips to cope with energy back to the school, such as take a good breakfast “ for excellent school performance ”, for 8% of school children attend the school without having breakfast and only 26% performs a full breakfast. In this regard, Ortiz stressed that children who go to school without breakfast “ have a decrease of their physical ability, its resistance to the effort, your muscle strength and their learning capacities, which has resulted in a lower concentration and academic performance ”.

This fact also strikes, he said, that “ increasingly there are more cases of obesity in children taking a little breakfast or do not have ”. In the Comunitat Valenciana, 13,49% of children between 2 and 17 years presents overweight and 10.76% suffer from obesity, before which the nurse warned that breakfast “ is the most important meal of the day, it needs to provide 25% of daily calorie needs and must be composed of a dairycereals in any of its forms (bread, cookies, or breakfast cereals) and fruit ”.

Thus, to reduce these prevalences, Ortiz advised “ decrease intake of fats and simple sugars, saturated, contained mainly in the pastry, the “ snacks ” and soft drinks, following the recommendations of the Ministry on food in schools; and will resume healthy habits as the intake of the traditional sandwich accompanied by water and fruit for snack and lunch, of course, always adjusting the ration at the age of the school ”.
Finally, the President of the SCE3 recommended implementation underway school nursing service in all schools because “ increasingly places more students with chronic health problems and allergies that require care and administration of medication that are not currently receiving ” andon the other hand, recalled that the school nurses “ also encourage healthy habits of life through programs of education for health, such as healthy eating, hygiene and correct ergonomics, prevention of disorders of eating behavior, consumption and abuse of drugs or problems related to sexuality, among others ”.

Ortiz also noted that the nursing school “ is not a profile yet to develop, because it is already institutionalized in some private schools and foreign nature of our country, in specific public schools for special education and even in autonomous regions like MadridCastile – La Mancha or Castile – León, where there are school nurses in regular schools where integrated children with health problems ”.

“ Our priority objectives are to publicize the work developed by the school nurse, and so encourage you to visit the website www.sce3.com where is the professional profile of the school nurse and get in a medium-term the school nursing is introduced gradually, in the same way in all the autonomous communitiesin other words, implement the nursing school in all specific schools of special education and regular schools where integrated children with health problems ”, said Ortiz.

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Guarani in Brazil ask Shell to stop using their land for ethanol

London, 6 sep (EFE).-A Guarani in Brazil tribe has demanded that the oil company Shell to stop using their land for the production of ethanol, it was reported today in a statement the Organization advocate for indigenous Survival International.

“Shell should leave our land, the company should stop using indigenous land. “We want justice, we want our land to be stroked and protected for us,” said Survival Ambrose Vihalva, a guaraní of the affected community.

According to the note of the Organization, Shell has joined the Brazilian company of ethanol thing in a joint venture called Raizen.

Part of Raizen, sold as a biofuel, ethanol is produced from sugarcane from the land of the Guarani.

In a letter sent to these companies, the tribe warns that, “since the factory began operations, our health has deteriorated, children, adults and animals”.

Apparently, the chemicals used in sugar cane plantations seem to cause diarrhea to Guarani children.

“We can no longer find many medicines which used to grow in the forest, the plants have been killed by the poison,” added the Guarani, claiming that they were never asked permission to use their land. EFE

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Ministers Mexico, Chile, Peru they participate in APEC Beijing Environment Forum

Beijing, 6 sep (EFE).-representatives of the forest of Mexico, Chile and Peru ministries today opened in Beijing, the first meeting of the cooperation economic Asia Pacific (APEC) Forum on forestry sustainable development in the region of Asia Pacific.

The event, organized at the initiative of the Chinese Government, was inaugurated by President Hu Jintao, who pointed out that for the next decade his country expected to increase by 40 million hectares the total area of forests, in comparison with the increase that occurred in 2005.

Hu also mentioned that “China is ready to make new contributions to the Green sustainable growth and forestry cooperation in APEC has lot of potential”.

In addition, stressed that the Asia Pacific region has more than half of the forest area in the world and a unique and rich ecosystem.

The theme of the first session of the ministerial meeting which was attended by representatives of 21 countries members of APEC and other international organizations, was to “reinforce regional cooperation by a forest of green and sustainable growth development”, according to official Xinhua News Agency

Is expected at the end of the meeting ministerial morning ensuring publish a “forest Declaration in Beijing”, according to a spokesman for the Chinese Government.

In 2007, the leaders of APEC countries established the objective of increasing the region’s total forest area by 2020 at 20 million hectares

These countries have 53 percent of the world’s forests, 60 percent of the production of forest products and 80 percent of trade in these products.

China proposed to organize the first meeting of Ministers from APEC countries responsible for the environmental in the tenth portfolio eighth informal meeting of APEC held in Japan in 2010, leaders proposed that was greeted with approval by other countries member.

On December 20, 2006 the General Assembly of the Organization of the United Nations recognized that forests and sustainable forest management contribute significantly to the development and the eradication of poverty and declared the international year of Forests 2011. EFE

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Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips

Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips