Blood scandal: laboratory technicians take blood from illegal patients
Solis denounces the Hospital
Laboratory technicians at the Military Hospital are cheating people over blood donations. Minister Solis denounced yesterday one of the ugliest acts committed by the white coats.
According to him, nurses take varying amounts of blood from people who gather around the laboratory and, after paying them a small sum of money, take [??] from the donors. The deeply shocking details of the blood scandal denounced by the very head of Albanian healthcare seem to have found their own home. The entire blood-drawing process takes place not far from the hospital building. The drunks from the nearby kiosks or the Roma are known so far as the “victims” of the nurses’ business.
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Female guards have sex with prisoners
Convicts give them 60,000 lekë for a turn in bed
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Italian condom for the Albanian shores
Andi Bejtja
Within a week of coming to power, Massimo D’Alema’s new government began its international activity by sending Interior Minister Rosa Russo Jervolino to Tiranë, where, following the latest tragedy in the Adriatic, she presented the Albanian government with an unforeseen problem: illegal migrants. This time Italian overbearingness was stronger than ever: we will no longer allow illegal emigration from Albania to the shores of Italy. The Italian minister had made this statement, in even harsher terms, before her visit to Albania as well. This was a real torpedo aimed at the new Albanian government, which already has many other heavy burdens on its shoulders.
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Pyramid schemes also fed the Police
Auditors’ report published
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Press Freedom: USA against the Ministry of Information
The representative of the American Embassy amended the draft of the final report of the International Conference of 30 October in Tiranë, insisting that the section discussing the media, and particularly the Ministry of Information, retain a position on the Ministry… cionit. Sources at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that his comments and suggestions concerning this Ministry had been accepted. In the first draft, in the section on the media, the final sentence said that “the creation of the Ministry...”
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SOCIALIST REALISM REVIVES: PAVILION IN THE ART GALLERY
CULTURE
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PARLIAMENT AGAINST MEIDANI AND THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE