Month: April 2012

Montevideo, 22 mar ( EFE).-the Uruguayan Government today called “tranquility and effort” to restore confidence in the health system, damaged by the case of the “Angels of death”, while the opposition demanded responsibilities for “lack of control” that killed at least 15 people. After several days of AWE and confusion throughout the country by the revelations of the case of two nurses who murdered patients in intensive care units of two hospitals in Montevideo, attempts to control the damage and the search for political consequences took the center of attention today. The Minister of Public health, Jorge Venegas, appeared for more than seven hours before the Health Commission of the Chamber of Deputies and Senators to explain the actions of the Executive to what happened and respond to consultations of opposition. According to the Minister, contain the social alarm caused by the events became one of the main objectives of his Ministry, in addition to supporting the health workers, very beaten by what has happened. “Came to give all the information.” “Now have to do two things: create the tranquility at a difficult and painful time does not create trust, but build it and then rebuild it”, said Venegas, who also sent a message of “strength, courage and confidence” to the health sector of Uruguay. In this regard, the Ministry responsible for rejected the existence of more cases similar...

MADRID, 23 ( EUROPA PRESS) Almost 5 per cent of Spanish children is in a State of malnutrition, as stated on the basis of the data of the study ' malnutrition Spanish paediatric hospital ' (DHOSPE) during the 7th training of Resident of Pediatrics Conference organized by the Institute of nutrition children’s Hero Baby. Research work, which was made last year but which has been revealed now, also sheds the fact that the risk of malnutrition “rises to nearly 30 per cent” in the case of children who enter the Spanish hospitals, explained the responsible for it. With regard to minors treated in primary care Pediatrics consultations, the percentage reaches “between 10 and 30 per cent”, confirm. For experts, the current situation is caused “by the increase in poverty and unemployment in our country bags” and the lack of nutritional knowledge of the general population. For this reason, point out that the initiative of the Institute of nutrition children’s Hero Baby, in collaboration with the Spanish Association of Pediatrics developed in Murcia “is very important for the dissemination of these figures”. Study DOSPHE, who has been in more than 60 Spanish hospitals with a sample of more than 1,200 children up to 18 years, has served to highlight the relevance of this situation. To present at the Conference specialist, a child can be considered malnourished “when their normal development...

MADRID, 23 (EUROPA PRESS) El PSOE wants the Government manifests clearly before the plenary of the Congress of Deputies on whether does intend to take health care co-payment or not and thus his spokesman in the health field, José Martínez Olmos, will defend a non-legislative proposal next Tuesday before the plenary session of the lower House, which asks that undertakes and manifest way “expresses” about if going to establish the payment for which recipe in the autonomous communities. In fact, the spokesman of the Socialists in the lower House, Soraya Rodriguez, already announced last Tuesday in a press conference after the Board of spokesmen, the intention of the PSOE in defending this initiative before the “ceremony of confusion” that his trial was issued from the Executive in recent weeks against the co-payment of health services. Among other points, he referred to the abstention of the PP in the Catalan Parliament, in the vote on the payment of a euro for every prescription dispensed in the community last week, a measure which was finally released later for its implementation underway since June, while the President of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, “said personally that he did not agree”. That Yes, warned that the Chief Executive said at the time that was not in favour of increasing taxes, and less income tax, and “was the first step that made when already assumed...

Montevideo, 22 mar ( EFE).- the President of Uruguay José Mujica described today as “a nonsense” that the staff of intensive care centres to work 12 hours in its early statements public in the case of two nurses accused and imprisoned for murdering 15 patients. Addition, felt that his countrymen are in “ shock” and statements that publishes today the weekly “Search” said that “health staff has to refine the conduct and treatment with the people”. To refer to criticism for alleged failures in the control system to which would have facilitated the actions of nurses, Mujica stated that “the controls are to detect medical failures” and not to act “against a criminal”. In the view of the President, the work continued in intensive care centres “tends to generate a kind of rigidity autodefensiva with pain and piety”. “No one should work in the CTI many years and the same in psychiatric hospitals”, said Mujica, and described as “nonsense” to nurses who are required to work 12 hours in two health centres. Representative said that “there is much to improve” in apparent reference to the Uruguayan health system and said that you “wonder” as they are handled elsewhere such as Germany and Sweden. El judge Rolando Giordano indicted nurse Ariel Acevedo, 46, on Sunday by 10 cases of “especially aggravated homicide” and the also nurse Marcelo Pereira, 39 years,...

MADRID, 22 ( EUROPA PRESS) the President of the group Hefame Antonio Abril has been elected Thursday as the new President of the Spanish Federation of distributors pharmaceutical (FEDIFAR), charge was Antonio Mingorance nine years. The new President has worked as a Vice President of FEDIFAR since 2007, in a Board of Directors that since 2004 had occupied the post of Treasurer. Also from that year, April is the President of the Council Rector of the Hefama group, after having held several positions in the pharmaceutical distribution cooperative and Vice President of the group. Since 2004, he is Director of the Association for the promotion of the pharmacy (APROAFA). In these elections have been April served as representative of the Association Hefame group, one of the nine business associations comprising FEDIFAR; and Lluís Barenys representing the Asecofarma Association. After a first ballot on February 16 in which none of the candidates obtained sufficient majority to be proclaimed President. April will’s President for the next three years, but soon has to constitute the new Board of the employers, which will be distributed the six Vice-Chairs and the Secretariat, Treasury and accounting. For April, the appointment as Chairman of FEDIFAR represents an honour and an enormous responsibility. Before the Assembly, has pledged to defend the interests of all companies of pharmaceutical distribution with “rigour and honesty”. Also, has indicated its intention...