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Two Saudi nurses infected with deadly coronavirus: WHO

Two Saudi health workers have contracted the deadly coronavirus from patients, marking the first evidence of transmission in a hospital setting, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. “This is the first time health care workers have been diagnosed with nCoV (novel coronavirus) infection after exposure to patients,” the WHO said…

Thousands of Spanish medical workers protest budget cuts

Thousands of Spanish doctors, nurses and other health care workers, many wearing white lab coats, demonstrated Sunday in 16 cities against budget cuts and plans to partly privatise medical services. Several thousand people marched to Madrid’s central Plaza de Cibeles from 27 hospitals in the region, waving signs that read…

80 putrefying bodies found in Tripoli hospital

TRIPOLI — The putrefying bodies of around 80 people were found in a Tripoli hospital on Friday, apparently the unlucky victims of fighting that prevented the wounded from being treated, an AFP correspondent reported. However, 17 patients were found alive, including a child, after having been trapped for days as…