A fire at Turku University Hospital on Friday 2nd September was caused by a short circuit in out-of-date electrical cabling, according to reports.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
Posted on 11 September 2011.
A fire at Turku University Hospital on Friday 2nd September was caused by a short circuit in out-of-date electrical cabling, according to reports.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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Posted on 25 August 2011.
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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Posted on 26 July 2011.
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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Posted on 05 July 2011.
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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Posted on 29 October 2010.
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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Posted on 16 October 2010.
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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Posted on 21 June 2010.
In 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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Posted on 08 December 2009.
Thorvaldur 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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Posted on 05 November 2009.
Building 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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Posted on 05 January 2009.
Halldor 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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Iceland central bank holds rates, predicts ongoing economic growth
Continued Malmö violence embarrasses police
Currency exchange privacy case thrown out of Icelandic court
Sauli Niinistö wins Finland presidential race
Iceland historic French village restoration finance secured
Murder in Hafnarfjörður
Workplace drug tests increase tenfold
Mythical Icelandic monster captured on film?
Explore Vatnajökull and Jökulsárlón in Iceland with Glacier Lagoon tour
Ocean turbine designer: “Iceland could up its energy production twentyfold”
