Archive for: November, 2011

Crisis Hits Hospitals; Hotlines Now open

Health service threatened by strike (c) Roman Whuke

Today is the last day on which doctors who resigned as part of a mass resignation campaign can take back their notices, and although some are doing it, many are not, leaving hospitals throughout the country with a lack of capacities. Even though the government put a state of emergency in place at 16 hospitals, [...]

Envelopes Opened in Tender for NCHZ Chemical Plant

What future awaits the NCHZ plant?

The offers of two companies in the tender on the sale of bankrupt chemicals plant NCHZ in Novaky were opened yesterday by the Creditors’ board and the bankruptcy trustee. The offered sums are not known, but the winner is clear as the two bids differed. Both companies will be notified about the outcome within 10 [...]

Day Four of Raging Fire in Nizke Tatry

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The fire and rescue service has still not been able to contain fires in the Nizke Tatry mountains that broke out on Sunday evening and spread on Monday. Work of the emergency services has been hindered by the difficult terrain, and so military helicopters are now being used, using 2,000 litre bambi buckets in an [...]

Doctors Start To Buckle: 800 Withdrawn Notices

LP Hospital, Kosice - photo (c) Veronika Januskova

The Ministry of Health is claiming that it now registers around 800 withdrawn resignations of doctors as of 2pm this afternoon, reports SITA newswire. This is almost one third of the 2,400 or so doctors who set out on the campaign of mass resignations, with health minister Ivan Uhliarik thanking them and assuring them of [...]

Zitnanska Wants To Strip Harabin of Robes

Justice minister Lucia Zitnanska (c) The Daily

Justice minister Lucia Zitnanska continues on her crusade against head of the Supreme Court Stefan Harabin, filing what is now her fourth petition for disciplinary action against Harabin over a case of hand-picked judges in a big money case. Zitnanska, who is hoping to strip Harabin of his judge’s robes, announced the news yesterday, saying [...]

Bratislava: One World Film Festival Starts Today

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The fact that all the inhabitants of the planet share one world is now more evident than ever before in the human history thanks to modern communication technologies. Nowadays, individual people can record and document the reality around them thanks to accessible technologies. Thanks to iInternet and mobile communication this content can be distributed to any [...]

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