Hospitals pay up for blunders
Hospital blunders that leave patients forever the worse can take years to settle but this week two cases were finally brought to some sort of conclusion. Correio da Manhã reports
Portugal on sinister “baby-trafficking” map
Disturbing news this week shows that Portugal may well be one of the destinations used by baby-traffickers. A little boy, admitted to Porto’s Santa Maria Hospital last year, with his
Lamego lung
The largest reforestation project ever to have been initiated along the Serra das Meadas in Lamego has just been given the go-ahead to revive the “green lung” in the area,
Troika listens
The Portuguese government has summoned unions for a meeting with the representatives of the Troika next Wednesday (December 11) at the Economic and Social Council of Portugal. Secretary of State
Healthcare hiccups in ‘no man’s land’ Algarve
Health units the length and breadth of the region have become veritable “no man’s land”, devoid of basic materials and running on sub-standard equipment, in some cases loaned from the
Faro katana-wielder strikes again
Faro residents are living in fear of an Angolan man who attacks people “for very little reason”. In the middle of November, he was arrested for bludgeoning a fisherman over
Olhanense connections sink Porto
League champions FC Porto suffered their first league defeat in nearly two years when they lost at Académica last weekend. Former Olhanense boss Sérgio Conceição masterminded the shock win with
Benfica are coming
On Sunday, December 8, Olhanense welcome Rio Ave to the Algarve Stadium, kick-off 4pm. Rio Ave constantly play better away from home having lost only once on their travels and
Baby-murder mother walks free
She has confessed to killing three of her children as newborns, but she is out of jail and awaiting trial for murder. As Correio da Manhã newspaper reported this week,
Police confiscate rare eel cargo
Fifty-six kilos of frozen baby eels – the largest black market cargo of its kind ever to be apprehended in Portugal – were confiscated and destroyed by GNR police during