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Spanish workers launch general strike over housing costs
Europe's health sector reached the front pages today, mostly for reasons unrelated to medicine. Romanian prosecutors indicted four intensive care doctors for deciding which patients lived or died. The Portuguese health minister fired an entire hospital board after staff warned of severe clinical risks. Italian police arrested thirteen people in a healthcare tender corruption ring. In Croatia, the prime minister urged the public to watch surveillance footage of psychiatric staff allegedly suffocating a bound patient. Meanwhile, Dutch doctors warned that files for tens of thousands of post-COVID patients are about to be destroyed.
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Prime Minister calls psychiatric patient's death murder
Surveillance footage emerged appearing to show staff at a psychiatric facility beating and suffocating a bound 32-year-old patient. Prime Minister Andrej Plenković explicitly called the incident murder and invited the public to watch the video, discarding the usual political instinct to wait for an official inquiry.
Health minister fires regional hospital board over clinical risks
The health minister dismissed the board of the Algarve’s regional health unit after doctors warned that staff shortages had created severe clinical risks. The minister was reportedly alerted to the crisis six months ago; the local staff say they have been reporting it for over a year.
Key themes Rent strike Homicide indictment Hospital corruption Prison sentencing Digital ID