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A 15-year-old boy was recovering in hospital this week after a fellow student stabbed him in the neck with a pair of scissors outside their school in Campillos on Monday. The victim was rushed by helicopter to Antequera hospital where he underwent
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Á. FRÍAS / J. CANO
Four workers on the Malaga Metro are being praised as heroes after they helped to save the life of a man suffering a heart attack on the network on Monday. Juan and his wife Ana were travelling back from the Hospital Clínico when Juan suddenly ... Juan is now back at hospital where he has started his recovery.
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CRISTIAN REINO
...degrees. The hypothermia had caused her to lose consciousness, and her heart had stopped. Incredibly, after six hours with no heartbeat, doctors at the Vall d'Hebron hospital in Barcelona managed to save her life. Not only that, but she has now ... journey. Nearly five hours after her husband thought he had lost her, Audrey arrived at the Vall d'Hebron hospital, about 140 kilometres from where the couple had been found on the mountain. "Her heart had no electrical activity, there were no vital
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ANTONIO JAVIER LÓPEZ / NIEVES CASTRO
For the second year running, Malaga was the scene of the arrival of Andalucía's first baby of the new year. Little Adil was born at six minutes after midnight at the Hospital Virgen de la Victoria (also known as the Hospital Clínico) weighing ... in Andalucía, Adil beat Francisco, born at the Hospital Poniente in Almería by just six minutes. Noelia adn Óscar with baby David.JOSELE Marbella The region's third baby of the new year was also born in Malaga province, in the Hospital Costa del ... felt her waters partially break in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Her partner took her to the hospital and there she stayed until David arrived the following morning. Óscar wasn't sure if he would stay for the birth but in the end he was there
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Nieves Castro
After three days in the Costa del Sol hospital, two-year-old Álvaro went home on Tuesday unaware that his survival was being described as a "miracle". He had fallen out of a window at his home in Marbella on Saturday afternoon, plunging six ... first aid. Álvaro was later transferred to the Costa del Sol hospital where he remained in observation until Tuesday. Jorge said that Álvaro must have climbed onto a chest of drawers next to the window before he fell more than 20 metres. Miracle
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M. SÁIZ-PARDO / C. REINO
...employee died in hospital on Wednesday. The explosion caused shock waves over a wide area and fire broke out at the plant. Initially local residents were told to stay indoors because of fear of toxic gas. However emergency services later said that it was
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CHARO MÁRQUEZ
The SMM (Sindicato Médico de Malaga) union says seventy per cent of staff of the Agencia Sanitaria Costa del Sol who work at the hospital in Marbella took part in strike action on Monday, and in some departments 100 per cent of workers supported the ... representative at the hospital, said the last agreement expired in 2009 and has never been replaced, causing job instability for many of the professionals who have worked at the hospital for years. The union claims that about half of the staff, including 200 ... Sanitaria Costa del Sol spoke out in support of the protesters, saying it is "especially concerned about and sensitive to" the situation of the hospital workers, because "all these professionals have undergone a rigorous and demanding selection procedure"
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ÁNGEL ESCALERA
A patient has recently undergone thyroid surgery using a new technique. The successful procedure, which is known as 'transoral thyroidectomy' and is carried out via the mouth, was performed at the HLA El Ángel hospital by Thai surgeon Thanyawat ... Sasanakietkul and colleagues Enrique Glückmann and Luis Ocaña, who are from Malaga. Dr Sasanakietkul, who is normally based at the General Hospital in Bangkok, is the world's leading expert in this technique, which is minimally invasive and is used for ... at the hospital so more than 60 experts on thyroid could watch it, while listening to a running commentary from Dr Sasanakietkul. This was onlythe second operation of its type to be carried out in Spain, and it was part of the first workshop on
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CLAUDIA SAN MARTÍN
What happens when a children's hospital is filled with art designed by and for the youngsters who stay there? That's what we asked when brothers Ángel and Pachi Idígoras, artists and SUR cartoonists, told us they had decorated the fourth floor of ... Malaga's children's and maternity hospital (known as the Materno) with beautiful pictures. And the answer was, it cheers the youngsters up and makes them smile. The artists decided the themes should be diverse and adapted to the children's requests, but
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Charo MÁRQUEZ.
Estepona council agreed on Thursday to sign over the recently completed shell of the new local hospital to the Junta de Andalucía's health service, to be fitted out and made ready for use. The council has paid for the construction work at over 15