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Hospital fire caused by faulty cables


A fire at Turku University Hospital on Friday 2nd September was caused by a short circuit in out-of-date electrical cabling, according to reports. Read the full story

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One baby twin sister loses fight for life


It has been announced that one of the baby twin sisters Icelanders have been collecting money and praying for, has died in hospital. Read the full story

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Temp secretary sacked for hospital record snooping


A Helsinki hospital has written to almost 200 patients to warn them that their medical records may have been stolen, more than a year after staff and the police first became aware of the data breach. Read the full story

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Serious traffic accident in Iceland: 11 hospitalised


A traffic accident yesterday in north Iceland involved three cars and left 11 people in hospital, two of them seriously injured. Read the full story

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Westfjords hospital to be saved?


On the day a new report claims that cutbacks to healthcare in Iceland’s remote Westfjords region will save the state little or nothing, the health minister of Iceland has indicated that he is likely willing to reduce the level of funding cuts to the region. Read the full story

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Icelandic hospitals under increasing pressure


Reykjavik’s Landspitali hospital is struggling to attract new specialists with the wages being offered. Despite staff cut-backs due to the budgetary restrictions, the situation is still considered serious. Read the full story

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Man drives car into Reykjavik hospital


landspitaliIn a strange incident, a man drove his car through the window of the mental health department at Reykjavik’s Landspitali hospital this weekend. Read the full story

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Iceland could rent doctors and nurses to Greenland


doctorThorvaldur Ingvarsson, Medical Manager at Iceland’s Akureyri Hospital, said at a meeting with Greenlandic counterparts and the country’s Minister for Health that Iceland should send doctors to Greenland. Read the full story

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New Reykjavik hospital construction announced


landspitaliBuilding work on Reykjavik’s new Landspitali Hospital will likely start in the latter half of 2011 and continue until 2016, according to a statement of intent signed yesterday by representatives of the pension funds and the Icelandic government. Read the full story

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Former Icelandic PM seriously ill


halldor-asgrimssonHalldor Asgrimsson, former Icelandic PM and chairman of the Progressive Party, was taken ill with pneumonia shortly before Christmas and spent two weeks on a life support machine in a serious condition. Read the full story

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