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Inquiry at Mallow hospitalTHE ANNOUNCEMENT by the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) of an investigation into the standards of patient care at Mallow General Hospital has been clouded in confusion. Unlike a previous investigation into the similar-sized Ennis General, prompted by specific instances of patient mismanagement, so far no individual breaches of patient safety have been revealed by Hiqa or the Health Service Executive (HSE). Indeed nursing, medical and political representatives from the hospital’s north Cork catchment area have been uniform in their praise of the facility.
Russian firesTHE SCORCHING heat and acrid smoke that has made life hell in Moscow for the last fortnight has doubled its normal death-rate to 700 a day. Muscovites living with temperatures over 32 degrees all last week are fleeing the city in large numbers or staying away from work, as firefighters in the countryside battle wildfires covering 1,740 square kilometres. Weekend concentrations of carbon monoxide and other poisonous substances were seven times above what is considered safe, while the ministry of emergency situations has appealed for volunteer firefighters, acknowledging that the 10,000 already deployed are overwhelmed.

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