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The port authority is set to acquire 11 boats that will be used to transfer patients from islands to hospitals, under an agreement signed on Monday between Maritime Affairs and Island Policy Minister Christos Stylianides and the Greek subsidiary of a Danish maritime safety equipment manufacturer.

The 57-year-old was located by rescuers who transported her with a stretcher to a safe location handing her over to the rescue vehicle

Don’t look under your bed…

An official inquiry on a Christmas party held inside the main entrance of the Red Cross general hospital in Athens that was caught on video, has cleared the administrator of any wrongdoing. 

It’s the perfect clock to prevent you from snoozing and rolling to the other side of the bed

She is brought out on the stretcher covered in blood.
The protester is currently in critical condition.

NEW - DC police shot a woman in the neck. Now taken out on stretcher covered in blood.pic.twitter.com/fk3zvYyvXO

— Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) January 6, 2021

I was reading a great report in a leading American newspaper about the problems faced by people working in the US health system when the coronavirus pandemic hit the country. I was struck by the account of a nurse who was describing her horror at the sight of patients lying on beds in the corridors.

A Colombian advertising company is pitching a novel if morbid solution to shortages of hospital beds and coffins during the coronavirus pandemic: combine them.

ABC Displays has created a cardboard bed with metal railings that designers say can double as a casket if a patient dies.

Seven technical staff working in a hospital in the eastern province of Erzurum produced a stretcher made up entirely of waste materials for use in the fight with the COVID-19 outbreak.

Technicians aim to prevent the transmission of the virus to the people around, especially healthcare workers, with the "closed isolation stretcher" they produced.

TAIPEI (Reuters) - A fire at a hospital in Taiwan killed nine people on Monday and injured 15 and an investigation has been launched into the cause of the blaze, authorities said.

Premier William Lai said the health ministry was overseeing rescue efforts at the hospital in New Taipei City, where the fire was extinguished shortly after dawn.