Law, corruption is punished even in the private sector
PENALTIES FOR BRIBERY OUTSIDE THE PUBLIC SECTOR ARE APPROVED FOR THE FIRST TIME
3 months to 2 years in prison for anyone who violates their duty. Foreigners working in Albania are also punished. The government says yes to the document; final approval requires 84 votes in Parliament
Alarm, 27% of those operated on get infections in hospital
Study by specialist healthcare doctors published
(In the photo:) Doctors and nurses during an operation
The most at risk are Surgery and Urology. Report: The air in operating rooms contains fungi, and the circuits of the suction device and the anesthesia machine contain microbes
Patient infections increase the length of stay and raise financial costs for hospitals. Minister Vasili: National center for the monitoring of complications
On page 13
By GENC KONDI
After a rating more positive than a year earlier, but still very low in the ranking of countries that successfully fight corruption, by Transparency International, the Albanian government seeks to create a dream of a tougher elite against this phenomenon, even extending the possible punishment beyond the territory of the Republic of Albania. The assessment of a highly developed level of corruption may be one of the main obstacles to failing to obtain approval for candidate country status for...
Continued on pages 8-9
Luiza Xhuvani: I am disappointed, the government politicizes art too
Interview/ The actress and PS deputy speaks
“The law in Parliament, I expected independence and decentralization of institutions”
Luiza Xhuvani: I am
disappointed, the government
politicizes art too
“The law in Parliament, I expected independence
and decentralization of institutions”
Disappointed! That is how Luiza Xhuvani, the well-known actress and recently a member of the Parliament of Albania, feels about the new law on art, drafted by the Ministry of Culture. According to her, this law leaves us where it found us, and it found us where we had already been before, that is, in place....
On pages 26-27
ARBEN MEÇE: THE PD WAS FOUNDED BY FUNCTIONARIES OF THE COMMUNIST REGIME
THE INITIATOR: RAMIZ HAD CONTRIBUTED
On pages 22-23
The next cruelty in Haiti
Yesterday in “New York Times”
By DEBORA SONTAG
The cholera outbreak in Haiti - the first in 50 years - has unleashed a new nightmare alongside the misery that has been prevailing there for months. The disease has affected more than 3,000 people, while ...
The next cruelty in Haiti
Continued on page 28
Destined to fail
Opinion of the Day
By ILIR DHIMA
Usually, everything is tied to the meaning given to the word necessary: what kind of society do we want, and what kind of arrangements are we willing to make? ...
Destined to fail
Continued on page 29
“Prudentino”, PD-PS, uncensored insults in the Committee on Laws
FULL FIGHT, OPPOSITION: PALOCA SHOULD BE EXPELLED
“Prudentino”,
PD-PS, insults
without censorship in
the Committee
on Laws
On pages 6-7
OSCE: The election clock has started ticking
PD CALLS THE TABLE
On pages 2-3
Breast cancer, everything you need to know
“ALMEDICUS”
Breast cancer,
everything you need
to know
Supplement
