Month: March 2012

Santo Domingo, 19 mar (EFE).-the Government of Dominican Republic launched today an initiative to try to stop the high pregnancy rate among adolescents in the country, a situation that national and international agencies calling in southern Lebanon of worrying. The National Plan for prevention of pregnancy in adolescence, whose execution is scheduled until 2016, search “reinforce, coordinate and articulate public policies to reverse the worrying statistics thrown last year of pregnancies in adolescents aged 13 to 19, said the Ministry of economy, responsible together with the Ministry of women in the project. Developed within the framework of the national development strategy, this initiative “is a comprehensive, multisectoral response of social participation, aimed at the reduction of pregnancy in adolescents in the Dominican Republic”, noted the Director of adolescent pregnancy prevention program, Indiana Barinas, in a statement sent by the Ministry of economy. The Mission of the Plan, he added, is “the creation and strengthening of mechanisms at the national and local levels, including budget allocation and accountability for the implementation of policies to reduce pregnancies among adolescents, guaranteeing equal opportunities and promoting healthy, pleasurable and responsible sexuality”. In 2011, around 12,000 adolescents aged 13 to 19, received pregnancy care services in the maternity leave our Lady of la Altagracia, Chief among the country. This represented 31 per cent of the total number of pregnant women handled in the health...

MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) – Uruguay opened on Monday an inquiry into all the country-intensive care units, then that two nurses were accused of killing at least 16 elderly supposedly them pain-relieving. Local media said police feared that the fatal victims region 200 and that defendants confessed after finishing with the lives of more than 50 people by injection of air or morphine. A third person was accused of cover-up. The Ministry of Health reported that it ordered the opening of an audit on the country intensive care units to verify compliance with the sanitary controls that should have prevented the deaths. “This situation her catalogue as dramatic, very painful and disgusting so it means the presence of killers within the health care team.” I want to be very clear in this regard. “Here there was people who acted with the intention of killing”, told reporters the Under-Secretary of the Ministry of public health, Leonel Briozzo. Custody nurses, Marcelo Pereira and Ariel Acevedo, 38 and 49 years, working in partnership with private Spanish, while one of them also played in the public hospital Maciel. The nurses confessed that they ended with the patient’s life by piedad. “Admitted numerous identical situations, which many people had provided medication that they suffered”, told reporters the judge of the case, Rolando Vomero,. The judge explained that the victims suffered from serious pathologies, but were not...