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Dr. Raed Arafat returned to his post at the Romanian Health Ministry after protesters in the streets supported him.

WHEN Dr. Raed Arafat resigned last month as under secretary of state at Romania's Ministry of Health, thousands took to the streets across the country to demand his return.

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A cold snap that killed 30 people in the Ukraine over the past five days has spread to much of eastern and central Europe with record lows in Bulgaria and heavy snow falls in Switzerland. Emergency services in the Ukraine said most of the dead were homeless people who froze to death on the streets, four were found in their homes, and over 600 people sought medical help for frostbite and hypothermia. Authorities opened 1,590 shelters to provide food and heat, and were planning to set up 150 more, as temperatures plunged to minus 28 degrees Celsius (-18 degrees Fahrenheit) in some regions. Meanwhile, police in Poland reported five new deaths on Tuesday, bringing the overall toll for January to 27 as overnight temperatures dipped to minus 30 Celsius (-22 degrees Fahrenheit). In Vilnius, the capital of neighbouring Lithuania, one homeless man was found dead Tuesday, bringing the death toll there to eight since Saturday. In the Czech Republic, a woman was found frozen to death in a garden shed in the capital Prague, police said. Meanwhile, two died in Romania, raising the death toll to eight since Thursday, the health ministry...

Who says Romanians have a gift for enduring austerity? Just before the protests by the "Indignados" of Bucharest broke out, a Romanian columnist was shocked that the Financial Times would suggest that his countrymen were “familiar with austerity”, while others in Europe were expressing their admiration of Romanians’ endurance under the measures imposed by the IMF. The €13 billion loan signed back in 2009 has certainly saved the country’s growth, but at what cost? Demonstrations have accompanied each of the austerity measures adopted by the Romanian government: a VAT hike, lower wages for civil servants, a 60-hour working week... Each time, the group affected has come out into the streets. But the discontent of recent days, which erupted following the resignation of the highly popular Under-secretary of State Raed Arafat in protest against the privatisation of the public health system, has touched all Romanians, and both right and left have flooded into the streets to take on the entire political class. They have, it seems, reached the limits of their proverbial ability to put up with the sacrifices. The government remains unmoved. Having endured the speeches of politicians who repeat the “austerity-solidarity” mantra and blame their failures on Europe instead of trying to combine austerity and growth, the Romanians have said “enough!" The protests in Romania are nothing more or less than a reflection of a discontent that could engulf the entire European Union. In truth, Europeans’ support for the sacrifices being asked of them, without any clear perspective being outlined or the situation explained, is fading fast. “For the European project to stay alive, something else is needed,” wrote Luca Niculescu in Revista 22 following the December 9 EU summit. Making peoples already hit hard by the crisis understand that stability requires austerity remains a tough sell. “There will be more demonstrations,” Niculescu predicts. It's blindingly obvious. To remedy the situation, leaders must change tack. They must stop calling a summit at every “critical” moment. They should just explain, patiently, that the disappearance of the single currency would mean much more than a return to the peseta, the franc or the mark, and understand, as the Dutch philosopher Paul Scheffer has emphasised, that citizens’ support cannot be won without solid arguments. For the death of the euro would mean, quite simply, the end of the Union. (Editorial)

Romanians holding mass anti-government protests in recent days against austerity cuts, including controversial health reform bill

 The European Commission warned today that it will launch legal action in the coming days against 14 EU countries that still allow farmers to keep egg-laying hens in cramped, illegal cages. A European Union law adopted in 1999 banned the use of tiny cages and gave governments 13 years -- until January 1 this year -- to comply with rules requiring farmers to give hens more breathing space. But the EU's executive arm estimates 51 million hens are still confined. The 14 states facing infrigement proceedings -- a first legal step that can lead to fines -- are France, Spain, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Romania. "We are launching infringement procedures against all the member states that are non-compliant and these will start in a few days," EU Health and Consumer Policy Commissioner John Dalli told a news conference. The law says hens must be given at least 750 square centimetres of living space, if not a nest, a perch or free-range conditions. But some hens are still being kept in spaces no more than the size of a standard sheet of paper....

The revolt currently shaking Bucharest is inspired by Raed Arafat, a doctor of Palestinian origin who protested against the privatisation of the country's health system. (Article)

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc has reappointed popular Deputy Health Minister Raed Arafat, whose resignation last week over proposed healthcare reforms sparked violent protests across the country.

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The Romanian government is reinstating a popular health official after days of protests over privatisation plans.

Romania's prime minister said Tuesday that a popular health official whose resignation sparked days of sometimes violent protests across the country will return to his job, in what was seen as a step to defuse widespread public anger at the government.

Romania's prime minister has called for calm after violence between police and demonstrators over austerity measures. The government has withdrawn controversial health reforms and...

Romania's prime minister has called for calm after violence between police and demonstrators over austerity measures. The government has withdrawn controversial health reforms and...

Romania's prime minister has called for calm after violence between police and demonstrators over austerity measures. The government has withdrawn controversial health reforms and...

Andrei Georgescu appointed deputy secretary of state in the Health Ministry. Romania's average salary rose to Lei 1,491 lei in November.

After resigning as Secretary of State in Romania's Health Ministry, Raed Arafat has openly condemned the draft law on health reform.

In Romania's capital, there is just one clinic that offers free health care to uninsured citizens.

A ceremony was held in Bucharest for the delivery by Eurocopter Romania, a subsidiary of Eurocopter - the world's leading civil and parapublic helicopter manufacturer - of an EC135 helicopter to Romania's Ministry of Health.The ceremony was attended by the Romanian... A ceremony was held in Bucharest for the delivery by Eurocopter Romania, a ... (more)

A Romanian medical centre was fined $60,000 dollars for performing an AIDS test on a young woman without her consent then sending the results to her employer, Mediafax news agency reported today. The young woman was then sacked by her employer without reason, the investigation by health authorities in the eastern city of Constanta showed. "We conducted an investigation and we found out that the young woman never gave her consent for an AIDS test", the director of the health inspectorate, Constantin Dina, told Mediafax. He added that the test results, which were "uncertain," were given to the woman's employer breaching all rules on confidentiality. The case has stirred shocked reactions in Romania. Health Minister Ladislau Ritli called it "regrettable" and insisted that HIV-infected patients must "not be discriminated against in any way". HIV rights groups welcomed the heavy fine imposed on the medical centre but urged the government to implement a national strategy against discrimination. "AIDS patients suffer from discrimination because of the lack of information among the population", the Union of HIV rights groups...

An EU survey has confirmed what anyone in Malta already knows - the Maltese are, ehm, fat. The European Health Interview Survey found that between 8% and 25% of adults are obese across the EU, with Malta topping the list for men and coming second for obese women.  Among the 19 Member States for which data is available, the proportion of obese people in the adult population varied in 2008/9 between 8.0% and 23.9% for women and between 7.6% and 24.7% for men. In the USA, the corresponding figure was 26.8% for women and 27.6% for men in 2009. For both women and men aged 18 years and over, the lowest shares of obesity in 2008/9 were observed in Romania (8.0% for women and 7.6% for men), Italy (9.3% and 11.3%), Bulgaria (11.3% and 11.6%) and France (12.7% and 11.7%). The highest proportions of obese women were recorded in the United Kingdom (23.9%), Malta (21.1%), Latvia (20.9%) and Estonia (20.5% in 2006/7), and of men in Malta (24.7%), the United Kingdom (22.1%), Hungary (21.4%) and the Czech Republic (18.4%). The proportion of obesity was higher for women in eight Member States, higher for men in ten and equal in one.The share...

Influential Romanian film and theatre director Liviu Ciulei has died at the age of 88 Ciulei who had been battling ill health passed away in his hometown of Munich Germany on Monday 24Oct11 according to his actor pal Ion Caramitru He began hi...

Romania's health ministry says two doctors were negligent in their treatment of former Sacred Heart basketball player Chauncey Hardy after he suffered fatal injuries.

Two doctors were negligent in their treatment of American basketball player Chauncey Hardy after he suffered fatal injuries, Romania's health ministry said Wednesday.

Romania hopes to conclude its analysis of Dutch flowers, plants and seeds as possible sources of health threats later this week, the European Commission says....

Private health care services provider MedLife plans to open the largest occupational health clinic in Romania in the centre of Bucharest.

President Traian Basescu approved the nomination of Ritli Ladislau for the post of health minister late on Wednesday.

Romanian Health Minister Attila Cseke announced on Thursday that he had submitted a letter of resignation to Prime Minister Emil Boc, citing his dissatisfaction with insufficient health budget.Budget revision which the government adopted on Wednesday was made without him being asked for opinions, Cseke said at a press conference . On Wednesday the government announced changes to the health budget for 2011, allocating an extra 340 million lei ((EURO)80 million) for health, which Cseke says is not enough.He says not being consulted about the financial needs of the health sector was "extremely serious." Romania has been under pressure to reform its inefficient health system. Officials plan to draft a new health law by the end of the year.Media-agencies

Romanian president Traian Basescu has told a public radio station that the country's health care system needs to be privatised and warned that the country's economy is "still fragile". Business Review The president reportedly said that he hoped to put a new health law before parliament in the autumn, which would allow hospitals to cease being just ...

The generosity of Maltese people is great towards missionaries who are abroad doing the Lord’s work. After having helped our mission in India and Romania for many years, the Mission Fund has followed me to Ethiopia with its annual donation of €1,200 even this year. “The poor will be always among you,” the Lord said and this is absolutely true in a country like Ethiopia, where misery builds upon misery. Homeless, lepers, street children, the uneducated, the sick, the unemployed, Aids victims surround us and every penny given to these causes is like a drop of water in an ocean of needs. I thank you for your support to the people who staff Mission Fund and who direct your donations to us. I would also like to remind you that the following accounts are open for Donations to Mission Fund: HSBC (Account No: 0611 9744 8050), BoV (Account No: 16 3007 9 8019), APS (Account No: 200 0082 0762) or BANIF (Account No. 000 879 631 01). More information can be found in the Mission Fund website: www.missionfund.org.mt. We, as a Community of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition here in Ethiopia, promise to pray for each of our benefactors, living...

BUCHAREST, Romania — Teenagers in Romania are widely intolerant of Gypsies, gays and people with AIDS, according to a new poll that called the results...

Teenagers in Romania are widely intolerant of Gypsies, gays and people with AIDS, according to a new poll that called the results "extremely worrisome." The findings published late Tuesday came from a poll paid for by the Soros Foundation and conducted in November.

Teenagers in Romania are widely intolerant of Gypsies, gays and people with AIDS, according to a new poll that called the results "extremely worrisome." The findings published late Tuesday came from a poll paid for by the Soros Foundation and conducted in November.

BUCHAREST, Romania - Teenagers in Romania are widely intolerant of Gypsies, gays and people with AIDS, according to a new poll that called the results "extremely worrisome." The findings published late Tuesday came from a poll paid for by the Soros Foundation and conducted in November.

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.

Posted on: Thursday, 7 April 2011, 15:44 CDT It is less than a week until the 10-year anniversary celebration of the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative at Texas Children's ...

Medical services consulting company Medical Insight has launched www.healthtravel.ro , the first Romanian site containing information about foreign hospitals.

Romania's Health Ministry has received official requests for more information on the regional emergency hospital network project from private investors in the United States, Canada, Austria and Israel, according to Mediafax newswire quoting people close to the matter.A A They said these requests came within one week of the project's announcement.

Baffled health officials say they can't stop a woman keeping her brother's body at her home in Bucharest, Romania, where she pretends he is still alive and sits him down for meals together.