Tag: patients
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Redemption in Liberia: a hospital’s painful recovery from Ebola
By Kieran Guilbert MONROVIA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The cries of young children ring around the hospital as hundreds of patients, packed tightly together on wooden benches and surrounded by boxes of syringes piled high, wait to be seen. Nurses shout to be heard as they rush through the dimly-lit corridors, past peeling, faded posters…
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Gunfire at Colorado Planned Parenthood triggered rapid lockdown
By Keith Coffman COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) – The moment a receptionist heard gunfire and an “intruder” burst into the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, the well-drilled staff immediately activated lockdown procedures, the organization’s local president said on Saturday. “This is a community that’s been under attack,” Vicki Cowart, president and chief executive of…