FG Warns Hospitals Against Detaining Patients Over Bills

The Federal Government has warned against hospitals detaining patients who cannot pay their medical bills, even as it said it would do everything possible to reduce reliance by public officials on foreign hospitals for healthcare services in 2017.

Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, at a briefing in Abuja, told doctors and hospitals that they did not have any right to detain any patient who could not pay bills.

According to the minister, a more dignified way must be found to treat indigent patients than detaining them over inability to pay bills.

Carrie Fisher's Mum Debbie Reynolds 'Hospitalised With Suspected Stroke'

Carrie Fisher's mum Debbie Reynolds has been rushed to hospital with a suspected stroke, just one day after the death of her daughter.

The 84-year-old actress was at home discussing Carrie's funeral plans with her son Todd Fisher in Beverly Hills when she suffered what TMZ has branded a 'medical emergency'.

It happened just after 1pm local time and emergency services were called to Todd's house.

An ambulance was sent to take Debbie to an emergency room nearby, where she'll be given treatment.

Hospital Gives Women Wrong Sperm During Fertility Treatment

Mistakes at a fertility lab at Utrecht’s UMC teaching hospital may mean the wrong sperm was used to fertilise the eggs of 26 different women, the hospital has admitted.

The likelihood this has actually happened is extremely small but cannot be ruled out, the hospital said in a statement. The mistakes were made between April 2015 and November 2016 and half of the women involved are either pregnant or have given birth.

The eggs from the other 13 women have been frozen for future use. The hospital has informed the couples involved, all of whom will be offered a dna test. The mistakes happened during a test tube baby technique which involves a sperm cell being directly injected into the egg.

Myanmar Men May Face Jail For Not Marrying Pregnant Women

Myanmar's government is drafting a law that could see men jailed for up to seven years for getting a woman pregnant but not marrying her, a senior official said on Wednesday.

The provision is part of tough new legislation designed to strengthen women's rights as the country opens up after half a century of military rule.

Director of the social welfare department Naw Tha Wah said the new law would criminalise domestic violence for the first time and make gang-rape a capital offence.

If passed in parliament, the law would also carry a penalty of up to five years in prison for any man who refuses to marry a woman after they have lived together, and up to seven if she is pregnant.

Photos: Plane Crash Lands On Packed Spanish Beach As Tourists Flee

Sunbathers on a Spanish beach popular with tourists had to run for their lives when a small plane attempted an emergency landing.

The three-seater aircraft spewed debris across the sands when it crashed onto the Las Teresitas beach in Tenerife shortly before 1pm yesterday.

A woman and a 14-year-old girl managed to walk away from the wreckage with slight injuries, but the pilot, freed by firefighters, suffered more serious injuries.

The trio, of French and Belgian nationality, are recovering in the Hospital of La Candelaria, according to local newspaper La Vanguardia.

We Can’t Afford To Handover To Young People Now- Okorocha

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, weekend said young people ought to be groomed well before handing over leadership to them. He stated this in Owerri, as part of his Christmas goodwill message to the people of the state, through his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo.

The release gave some reasons why the governor made the statement. ”What Nigerians and of course the leaders in particular need to do now, is to unite and begin to build a country of our collective dreams and aspirations.”

He added that,”The leaders cannot afford to hand over to the next generation what we have at the moment as a nation, in which ethnicity, religious bigotry and zoning of political offices are still the order of the day.”

Why Buhari Hasn’t Spoken On Kaduna Killings- Femi Adeshina

The death toll from last Saturday’s attack on the village of Goska, near Kafanchan, Jema’a Local Government Area, LGA, of Kaduna State has risen from five to 11, village sources told Vanguard.

However, the Kaduna State Police Command said it was yet to ascertain the death toll. Goska Village, Kaduna afer the Mayhem by suspected Fulani herdsmen.

This is just as Governor Nasir el-Rufai has condemned the attack carried out despite a 24-hour curfew imposed on the area, saying the assailants would not know peace.

Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari is silent on the ongoing violence in southern Kaduna because Governor el-Rufai is handling it, Presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina, said yesterday, in television programme.