Month: April 2012

Bukavu ( DR Congo), 23 mar ( EFE).-in the eternal conflict in Eastern Congo, a doctor of good-natured aspect keeps alive the hope of many women who, after being raped by the army and armed groups, are salvation in your hospital. The “ guardian angel” of these patients is called Denis Mukwege, a gynecologist who founded in 1999 the Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, capital of South Kivu province (East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC), and whose defence of the rights of the Congolese has earned him two times the candidacy for the Nobel Peace Prize. “this is a general hospital, but half of our (approximately 300) beds are dedicated to women raped,” says Efe Mukwege, sausage in his white bathrobe inseparable, who has tried to “more than 35,000 women” since the creation of the Medical Center. Bukavu, more than 700,000 inhabitants city built on five peninsulas overlook to Lake Kivu, was established in 1901 by the Belgian colonial authorities, who called it the “Switzerland of Africa” for its picturesque landscapes. Exhausted some time those days of colonial rule, the long shadow of the war in the Congo (1998-2003), considered the “Africa’s world war,” because it meant to nine countries and more than 20 armed groups, now hanging over the city. Soldiers of the Congolese army with rifles and bullets hanging from the neck strings now patrolling...

Rome (Reuters) – Pope Benedict XVI on Friday walked in public for the first time at the start of his trip to Latin America, in a sign of his growing physical weakness helped by a cane. The Pontiff, who turns 85 next month, walked to a plane at Rome Fiumicino airport with a cane, said the Vatican reporters accompanying him on his visit to Cuba and Mexico. The Pope last year began using a mobile platform to avoid too much walking on the altar of St. Peter’s Basilica. The Vatican said that the Catholic leader was using the platform to avoid fatigue and that there were no major concerns about his health in general. Benedict XVI intends to rest 24 hours after his arrival to Mexico to recover from lag, in contrast to the busy schedule of his predecessor John Paul II rather than his health deteriorate in the last years of his life. The German Pope was 78 years old when he was elected to the maximum in the Catholic Church and has decided to keep a schedule less exhausting to maintain his health, while John Paul II was 58 at the start of his papacy. John Paul II, who died in 2005, made 19 trips to Latin America, a region in overwhelmingly Catholic majority, the last of them when he was 82 years old. The less active...

Madrid, 23 mar ( EFE).-today the panorama of tuberculosis in the world is “much worse” which when discovered its cause in the 1980s and they predicted that it would be eradicated by the year 2000, today warned a medical Spanish expert in this disease. Before the commemoration tomorrow of the World day of Tuberculosis, Dr. Pere Joan Cardona, head of the unit of Experimental Tuberculosis of the Hospital Germans Trías i Pujol Badalona, in the region of Catalonia, cited three risk factors. Is the AIDS, that multiplies the susceptible population develop the pathology; Multiresistant strains and the accumulation of the world’s population in the cities, which favors transmission. “Unfortunately, prophylactic and therapeutic arsenal is virtually the same as in the 1980s,” said Cardona, one of the discoverers of the first vaccine against latent TB infection The expert pointed out that the increase of mobility on a global scale has caused that tuberculosis no longer be a problem in the third world to become “a usual disease in large European cities such as London, Paris or Barcelona”. This fact, continued, must promote “their visibility and increase in resources” to achieve its eradication. Although the number of cases has fallen globally since 2006, the number of children who have lost their parents due to tuberculosis reaches 10 million. Is also important to note that 13 per cent of the cases of...

the follow-up programme, which will be through Health responds, expected to begin at the end of the month of April in Andalusia Seville, 23 ( EUROPA PRESS) The Regional Ministry of health of the Junta de Andalucía has initiated this Friday in Seville the formation of health professionals for the start-up of the project of ' telecontinuidad ' for patients in the final stage of life. This service will allow, through ' health responds ' and in coordination with professionals of the public health system Andalusian, offer a monitoring individual 24 hours a day to patients in palliative care who have recently been treated at public health, either in hospitals or in primary care through case management nurses. In order to carry out this monitoring, practitioners will have a computer system containing the information of the patients in palliative care (cancer and non cancer) and from where you will have access to your medical history and care, as well as all calls from health answers. Single database The aim is the creation of a single database of these patients, which may be accessed both hospitals, management of cases of primary care nurses and palliative care mobile teams. This is an element of the continuum of care improvement that practitioners may consult the patient’s evolution at any time through a tool designed for the purpose, in whose use will train...

they earmarked money to programs to prevent the problems generated by new substances or care and socio-laboral insertion of those affected MADRID, 23 (EUROPA PRESS) The Government has approved this Council of Ministers Friday criteria for distribution of the Fund’s assets confiscated by illicit trafficking of drugs and other related offences for 2012, which will be devoted to preventing the problems generated by new substances; care and socio-labour insertion of the persons concerned and to improve the systems of the State security bodies and forces. Also, this money will be earmarked for programmes for the prevention of communicable diseases associated with injecting drug use; health care initiatives addressed to children affected or at risk and courses of training and retraining of professionals, volunteers and social mediators in prevention, assistance and socio-labour insertion of people drug addicts. According to the law 17/2003 of 29 may, which regulates this Fund, the proceeds of disposition of property confiscated by illicit drug trafficking and other related crimes is intended to intensify the actions carried out in the areas of control of drug supply and demand reduction, as well as international cooperation in these matters. This Fund is managed by the Coordination Bureau, awards, consisting of representatives of the ministries of health, social services and equality, finance and public administration, justice and Home Affairs. The Government delegate for the National Plan on drugs, Francisco...