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HEALTH
2008-11-27
Hanging onto the Edge of Life…
Cancer Patients Can’t Afford Medical Treatment
As a result of amendments to the healthcare system, so-called reforms, those suffering sick cancer are facing death. The formerly existing system of medical assistance for such patients envisaged that the government would offset 70% of the cost of treatment, which has now been canceled. Only several concrete programs will be funded by the state after the amendments planned in the Ministry of Healthcare. Co-financing program will still work for the patients over 60; as for younger people, they will not be able to involve this category and they will have to pay their treatment. According to official statistics, the number of such patients is just over one in three, 35 % of all Georgians.2008-11-03
Measles Vaccination Scandal Results from Misleading Media Reports
210 people were injected with measles vaccine at the policlinics # 26; 180 people were injected on the second day; 22 were injected on the third day and 6 more on the third… the number of people that were being vaccinated had been reduced each day. The reason for the changes was that TV has carried stories about the children who ended up in hospital after being vaccinated. Consequently, many people became afraid about the measles vaccine and did not trust that it was safe and they would not have complications themselves.
OTHER NEWS
Personnel changes in the Gori municipality city hall
Protest against Gori municipality mayor, who spends holiday in Gonio during the creeping occupation in Gori municipality
Campaign Swim Safe – Another action of the school students at the Tbilisi Sea
Worker of the Municipal Amenities Service Passed Away of the Injuries Received during the Working Hours
The state obliges the victim of cruel treatment in the penitentiary establishment to conduct expertise every year
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Gorashvili vs Natchkebia
Lector of the Law Faculty of the Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University Giorgi Gorashvili sued the student of the same faculty Buba NatchkebiaDetailed...
City full of death
Vanished people – “Never forget me”
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Forgotten by government veterans
Every year, fewer and fewer veterans of the World War II meet the Victory Day. The society receives information about them only onDetailed...
Villages of the Hopeless
What happened to Dream of Justice Revival?
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