General Hospital

A two-year-old toddler who fell off a balcony in the district of Petriti in Corfu on Friday was rushed to hospital, state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported.

Speaking to the news agency, the manager of the island's General Hospital, Fivos Kakavitsas, said the doctors had not yet assessed the state of the boy's health and did not know why he fell.

Lithium

Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday Rio Tinto's Jadar Project would be a major development boom for Serbia and its Podrinje region, which has 10 percent of the world's lithium deposits.

A 36-year-old employee at Corfu's main airport has been receiving treatment over the past two days at the island's General Hospital after being diagnosed with type-B meningitis.

The director of the hospital, Foivos Kakavitsas, indicated that the case did not pose a public health risk.

A case of an attacked doctor was report from the General Hospital in Dobrich. The incident happened on August 5th in the Children's Ward.

The Republic of Cyprus will have to pay €25,000 to a Canadian citizen, following a decision by the European Court of Human Rights that found he was abused while in police custody.

The plaintiff, Hani Abdul Khani Kabbara, filed a case against Cyprus regarding his arrest in 2011 in Limassol and subsequent treatment by authorities.

Five children were injured yesterday after an explosion in front of a residential block of the former student hostels in Dobrich. The incident took place at 17.00 on Kaliakra Str. Three of the injured children were placed in a hospital in Dobrich without danger to their life; a fourth child was transported to the specialized eye clinic in Varna.
 

Three Bulgarians are in hospital after the bus they traveled rolled over in Serbia. None of them is in life threatening condition, the Foreign Ministry said.

There were laughs and tears on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday as actress Eva Longoria was honored with a star, reported Reuters.

 Friends and family were on hand to fete the 43-year-old, including pop star Ricky Martin, actress Anna Faris, and Felicity Huffman, who played alongside Longoria for eight seasons in the TV drama "Desperate Housewives".

A 37-year-old Afghan male - whose initials are R.H. - has been arrested in the asylum center in Bogovadja, near Lajkovac, in western Serbia.

The suspect has been placed in police custody after he "threw his 22-year-old (female) cousin through the window" of the facility, Serbian media reports said on Thursday.

The dire state of regional health centers has been exposed in a new survey.