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At a press conference in Montreal, Minister Dubé said he hoped more people with questions about their health would call 811 first, rather than going straight to the emergency room.

This would allow patients to be better routed to the appropriate services when needed.

“One in two people who go to the emergency room could have gone elsewhere. »

— A quote from Christian Dubé, Quebec Minister of Health

According to Mr. Dubé, approximately 350,000 Quebecers end up in emergency rooms each month.

The Minister of Health also wanted more appointments to be offered in general practitioner groups and in children’s clinics.

He then announced that Quebec plans to open two clinics run by specialized nurses within a few weeks; These would be set up in the CUSSS de l’Est-de-l’Île-de-Montréal area and in the Centre-Sud district.

Eventually, the Legault government wants to free up 1,700 beds in CHSLDs, in rehabilitation clinics or even in interim camps, so that the many patients waiting for a place can leave the hospitals.

According to Christian Dubé, 58% of these additional beds will still be installed in the coming days.

A government crisis team

Minister Dubé last week announced the creation of a cell to overcome the crisis in emergencies. Officials from the Department of Health and Human Services and chief executives from Greater Montreal facilities sit on the committee, which met for the first time last Thursday.

Members of this group include Dr. Mauril Gaudreault, President of the College of Physicians; dr Shannon Fraser, Medical Director of the Command Center of the CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal; Delphine Alberto, Head Nurse for Emergencies at Santa Cabrini Hospital; dr Pierre Gfeller, President and CEO, McGill University Health Center; and dr Lucie Opatrny, Deputy Assistant Minister at the Ministry of Health.

The minister specified that the composition and scope of this unit will evolve over the coming weeks and months.

The primary mission will be sacrificed, officials say

After an initial appeal last June, Quebec emergency leaders returned to the charge earlier on Tuesday: It’s important to better allocate hospital resources to manage emergency overcrowding, they say in a letter to the CEOs of healthcare facilities in Quebec and finally to Minister Dubé.

Otherwise, officials said, emergency departments could no longer perform their primary job of treating people with unstable or even life-threatening conditions in a timely manner.

United in the Regroupement des chefs d’urgence du Québec, these emergency chiefs also argue that the current congestion in Quebec’s emergency departments is a security breach for the population, further compromising access to emergency stretchers for the sickest patients and compromising the quality of care for patients who are already in the emergency room.

During a visit to Tout un matin at the ICI premiere, Dr. Judy Morris, President of the Quebec Association of Emergency Physicians, notes that the ER occupancy rate remains above 100% and has been high since last spring.

“We used to see spikes, but now it’s holding up. »

– A quote from Dr. Judy Morris, President of the Quebec Association of Emergency Physicians

according to dr Morris attributes much of the emergency department’s overcrowding to a lack of available beds in the hospital’s various departments or on the long-term care side.

This causes all kinds of delays in care and treatment, she added.

According to the letter, however, the overcrowding of hospitals not only affects care for the patients who need it most, but also creates hostile physical and psychological conditions for hospital staff. Emergency response teams end up suffering moral pain and suffering alongside a general sense of helplessness.

according to dr Morris, the situation is that for several months, about 13 or 14% of hospital patients no longer need their bed but are waiting for long-term care that is not immediately available.

The observation is the same whether it is the writers of the letter or Dr. Morris acts: With bed closures in specialist departments and in long-term care due to a lack of resources, a domino effect is occurring, leading to emergency rooms being staffed well beyond their capacity. Partly with not only stretchers in the corridors, but downright bedridden patients in the waiting room.

Which solutions?

In their letter, the emergency managers demand in particular that the lack of staff should no longer be a reason to close beds in the nursing stations or on the long-term care side.

Signatories are also calling for an end to the practice of diverting ambulances to the emergency rooms of less-busy hospitals, which they say is causing overcapacity problems at those same hospitals.

Finally, among other measures, we also propose to set up a public information program designed to inform the population about the actual emergency capacity of an area and adjust user expectations.

These demands are very similar to those put forward last June, which also recommended using day surgery units, recovery rooms and ambulances to accommodate patients in an overcrowded situation or to wait on hospital floors for a bed.

The same proposed solutions are also supported by the Association of Emergency Nurses of Quebec and its President, Guillaume Fontaine.

The latter recalls that risk and problem management is generally focused on emergencies.

It’s a small bottleneck, he says.

Mr Fontaine marginally regretted the loss of expertise due to the departure of nurses and emergency managers. It takes three years to train such a specialized nurse, he recalled, since arriving at the emergency room.

The exit polls of the fifth elections in Israel since 2019 gave the bloc of former Prime Minister and leader of the conservative Likud, Benjamin Netanyahu, victory with 61 to 63 of the 120 MPs against the broad coalition he led, the centrist Yair Lapid, who defeated him last year wrested power. The extreme right, which has increased its representation to 150%, benefits most from the high turnout of 66.3% by 8 p.m., unprecedented since 1999. If the count confirms this, Israel is on track to resolve the political deadlock that has made it the country that has voted the most every 2.4 years since 1996.

The three exit polls on national television channels 11, 12 and 13, broadcast at 22:00 (21:00 in mainland Spain), give Likud victory with between 30 and 31 seats (30 in year 2021). The other three lists of the pro-Netanyahu bloc add between 31 and 33 MPs.

One of them, Religious Zionism, makes a big jump in just one year: from six to 14 or 15 MPs. The three-party list with an ultranationalist, racist and homophobic message would become the third force in the Knesset. His number two, Itamar Ben Gvir, was the sensation of the campaign and the parsley of all debate, marking what is being talked about and how it is being talked about with the rest of the armed forces.

The other two lists supporting Netanyahu, the leader who has ruled Israel the longest (15), represent ultra-Orthodox Jews. The Sephardic Shas increases from nine to ten seats and Ashkenazi Torah United Judaism remains at seven.

The ruling bloc falls to 51-58, despite the increase (from 17 to 22-24) of Prime Minister Lapid’s party Yesh Atid, who on Tuesday wanted to symbolically bridge three generations. First he visited the grave of his father, fellow journalist Tommy Lapid, who co-headed a secular party opposed to the ultra-Orthodox Shinui, the Justice Department, with Ariel Sharon. Then, when voting in Tel Aviv, he urged the population to go out and vote: “For the future of our children and our country.”

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National Unity, led by Secretary of Defense Benny Gantz, is reducing its presence (from 11 to 13) compared to the 14 that the two parties that make it up, Blue and White and New Hope, received separately in 2021. And Israel Beitenu, by Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman, falls from seven to four or five. They are two of Netanyahu’s ex-partners who switched sides when they felt betrayed.

The historic Labor Party and Meretz’s pacifist left are saving the dishes by exceeding the 3.25% of the vote required for parliamentary representation. Meretz will have four or five MPs while Labor will have five or six. Well-known journalist Merav Mijaeli has not succeeded in bringing the Labor Party, which has ruled the country for the first three decades, out of obscurity, nor has Zehava Gal-On succeeded in reviving a Meretz still plagued by stigmata and internal struggles. The United Arab List gains one seat and stands at five, in a endorsement of its decision to become the first representative of the Palestinian minority with Israeli citizenship to enter the government since the country’s founding in 1948.

Outside the blocks, only one other Arabic list remains, Hadash-Taal. She was ready to back Lapid’s inauguration without entering government, more out of fear of the far right than conviction, but her four MPs are far from finally adding 61.

Yair Lapid, at his polling station in Tel Aviv this Tuesday POOL (Portal)

The division created by Netanyahu was felt from the very first hour even in one of his fiefdoms, Jerusalem. A group of girls complained that a passer-by refused to take a picture of them next to the phrase “Rak Bibi” (Only Bibi). And many at a polling station near the historic Nahalat Shiva district couldn’t help but show their support or dislike for Netanyahu as they passed the Likud booth.

One of them, Itzhak Levi, 65, put a party sticker on his jersey. “Let everyone see!” he said, before pointing at a poster of Netanyahu and adding excitedly, “What a pity he’s so old [73 años]! Who will later be like him!? we need it because [los judíos] we have only one state and so many enemies…”.

Despite Netanyahu’s close support as Levi’s, he didn’t seem to have it all with him while the elections were still open. Earlier this morning, he posted a 10-minute direct on Facebook, in which he reviewed the feuds in which he was modestly involved and called on his followers to “set the alarm clock” and against “the Lapid government and the Muslim Brotherhood.” voices. . With Israel declaring election day – always Tuesday – a public holiday, he began touring shopping malls, where he asserted he saw “many” of his supporters while the left filled the ballot boxes with ballots. In an attempt to encourage his own participation, he tweeted a montage of two photos: one of people queuing, with the phrase “Left-wing ballot box in Tel Aviv,” and another of an empty corridor, with ” Ballot of the Likud in Holon”, a nearby town. The picture is actually from 2019.

אחוזי הצבעה נמוכים במעוזי הליכוד>> רק מחל! pic.twitter.com/vz8c5yvN5D

– Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) November 1, 2022

Abraham, who describes himself as “fairly right-wing and fairly religious,” did not vote for him. He believes that “the time has come for him to resign” and prefers National Unity, Gantz’s party, despite governing with two left-wing formations and one Arab. He emigrated from the US in 2018 at the age of 59 and believes that “Israel belongs only to the Jews” and that creating a Palestinian state would be “dangerous” but also that the country must consider the “differing perspectives”. that it accommodates and “gets along with your neighbors.” This is exactly what Gantz – the only candidate openly defending a coalition between forces from both blocs – said when he cast his ballot: “We’re fed up with the hustle and polarization.”

Abraham’s daughter, Eliza, 21, a soldier in a combat force in the army (which in the girls’ case means volunteering and getting the green light from family), chose Zionism instead, religiously which he referred to as religious “slightly to the right.” “Everyone puts the center in one spot, right?” he clarifies. In the 18 to 24 age group, it is further to the right (70%) than the national average (63%).

A man is voting in a special ballot box for people quarantined by Covid this Tuesday in Jerusalem.

Religious Zionism had more young people handing out leaflets throughout the city, from the Christian Quarter of the Old City to the privileged Rehavia, than any other formation. The general sentiment among his supporters was, as his campaign slogan puts it, “Ben Gvir’s time has come”. According to exit polls, no other force has risen as much. Their enthusiasm contrasted with that of the majority of voters from the other parties, who justified their vote on the lesser evil or fear of being expelled from Parliament.

Such is the case of Sonia Kazovsky. He is 33 years old and has lived in Amsterdam since he was 20. Like hundreds of thousands of other eligible Israelis living abroad, you can only vote in-person in the country. “I didn’t come on purpose, but since he caught me here, I will,” he said at the gate of the polling station. Previously he opted for Arab parties, but this time he hesitated between Labor and Meretz until the last moment. He opted for the second, who rejoined the executive branch in 2021 for the first time in two decades. “I’m not sure if I identify with the left, but I see it easier for Merav to pass [Mijaeli] this Zehava [Gal-On], so I decided to help her.” “Definitely,” he adds, “everything is very difficult here, very violent. It should come from “my body, my decision” from Amsterdam to identity politics”.

Shalom, 73, also opted for Meretz: “I’ve always voted for the left. I won’t stop now if it needs a boost. I am aware that I am a minority here now. The left has moved to Los Angeles [considerada la ciudad fuera del país en la que viven más israelíes]. All of Israel went right.”

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The White House will host the second international summit on ransomware organized by the Biden administration on Monday and Tuesday, which will be attended by 36 countries and the European Union.

While last year’s meeting was held in a virtual format, this time the debates will be held in person in Washington, a senior US government official said in an interview with reporters.

Dealing with “ransomware,” those computer attacks that cripple businesses or public services and that involve ransom demands mostly in bitcoins, “is getting harder and harder,” recognized this source, who declined to be named.

“The pace and sophistication of these attacks is growing faster than our resilience and our efforts to disrupt them,” she said.

The senior official gave the example of a recent attack on the Los Angeles school district, the largest in the United States, which leaked confidential data from cybercriminals.

She also mentioned the numerous ransomware attacks on hospitals around the world, as well as on states or local administrations, such as those suffered this year in Costa Rica or the southern Italian city of Palermo.

The main novelty compared to 2021 will be the participation of companies such as the American giant Microsoft, the German concern Siemens or the Indian conglomerate Tata.

“We invited the private sector to a discussion because we know that (companies) have insight into the threat, the actors, the networks used and the best way to counter these threats,” said the senior manager.

“This is just the beginning,” she said, adding that the goal is to include more companies in the future.

Democratic candidate hit 12 times in the head and knocked out in a ‘politically targeted’ attack in his own backyard: thugs threw bricks through the door and spray-painted ‘your race is dead’ on the garage

• Richard Ringer, a Pennsylvania Democrat, was attacked in his yard Monday morning after catching a man trying to break into his garage
• The latest attack is one of three suffered by Ringer in the past three weeks as his race for a seat in the House of Representatives in the Nov. 8 election nears
• In one of the first attacks, Ringer found a brick thrown through a window of his home
• He later found a note on his garage door with the words “Your race” and “Dead” clearly painted on it.

By Vanessa Serna

Published: 15:06 GMT, 01 November 2022 | Updated: 20:59 GMT, 1 November 2022

Police are on the hunt for a suspect who punched a Democratic candidate in his backyard after receiving multiple threats.

Richard Ringer, a Pennsylvania State House candidate who is seeking to unseat Republican Rep. Matt Dowling in the upcoming election, was attacked at 5 a.m. Monday as he approached a man trying to open his garage.

Ringer has received other threats in recent weeks, including a brick thrown through a window at his home and a message on his garage that read “your race” and “dead.”

The Democratic nominee said he left his home Monday to find a man with a flashlight.

“A guy had his back to me,” Ringer told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “He was taller than me and he was pinning me tight on my left side.

“I’m right-handed and he had my right arm pulled back and he hit me 10-12 times in the head, face and eye and he knocked me unconscious.”

He could not give the police a description of the suspect. It is unclear if the attacker was linked to the previous attacks.

Richard Ringer, a Pennsylvania Democrat, was attacked in his yard Monday morning after catching a man trying to break into his garage. He is running for a seat in the House of Representatives against Rep. Matt Dowling in the upcoming election

Ringer suffered multiple cuts on his hand shown above. He said he was struck down by the suspect

The attack comes weeks after Ringer woke up to words in his garage that read “your race” and “dead”.

When Ringer’s property was first violated, he found a brick thrown through his back door window

Ringer is a candidate for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives who is seeking to unseat Republican Rep. Matt Dowling in the upcoming election

Ringer did not require medical attention, but pointed out that several incidents occurred weeks before the Nov. 8 election.

“My neighborhood is safe,” Ringer told WTAE. ‘It’s quiet and there’s no crime. If you’re just trying to connect the dots, maybe. But I can’t say for sure.’

It’s unclear whether the latest attack was politically motivated, Ringer said.

The chilling attack comes days after a man was accused of breaking into Paul Pelosi’s home and hitting him in the head with a hammer.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband was attacked by a suspect by a man entering Pelosi’s $6 million San Francisco home around 3 a.m. Friday.

David DePape, 42, entered the bedroom where Paul, 82, slept and said he would wait for his wife to get home.

DePape later told investigators he intended to hold Nancy hostage and break her kneecaps.

The latest attack comes days after a man was accused of breaking into Paul Pelosi’s home and hitting him in the head with a hammer while Nancy was away

DePape, 42, is accused of breaking into Pelosi’s $6 million home and attacking Paul Pelosi, 82, with a hammer as he shouted, “Where’s Nancy?”

When police officers arrived at the exclusive estate (pictured), they said they saw DePape attack Pelosi with a hammer. The perpetrator broke into the house early in the morning

The suspect reportedly had zip ties on him when he broke into the Pelosis’ home and yelled “Where’s Nancy?”

According to a Justice Department press release, Paul was able to call police, who arrived two minutes later and found himself fighting the suspect over a hammer.

DePape was charged Monday with assault and attempted kidnapping.

Criticism from the ultra-conservative Polish government of the Hungarian Prime Minister, the nationalist Viktor Orban, is rarely heard. However, since Russia invaded Ukraine, nothing has gone right between the two central European countries that are members of the European Union (EU). Normally allies in their virulent attacks on Brussels, they are openly showing divisions over Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In late March, Polish President Andrzej Duda said he understood Hungary’s “huge dependence” on Russia for energy, but that “with Russian aggression in Ukraine and the deaths of thousands of civilians [il avait] difficult to accept the position of the Hungarian Prime Minister”. “This policy will cost him dearly,” he said.

While Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki denounces the “totalitarian state” set up by the Russian President, Mr Orban, who has maintained cordial relations with the Kremlin in recent years, is trying to strike a careful balance. If the Hungarian supports the joint decisions at European level and within NATO, he categorically refuses to supply arms to Ukraine or even allow them to pass through its territory.

On October 23, Mr Orban even accused Brussels of weakening Hungary with its sanctions against Russia while facing a protest movement of teachers and students at home. “Let’s not worry about those shooting at Hungary somewhere in the shadows from the watchtowers of Brussels,” he said. “They will land where their predecessors landed,” he added, predicting a similar fate for the EU as the Eastern bloc that collapsed between 1989 and 1991.

Additionally, in mid-October, the Hungarian government launched a “national consultation” on European sanctions against Moscow, which Mr Orban continues to castigate, even though he voted for it along with his partners.

He goes to the balcony of his house to take a selfie, but something goes wrong. Melike Gun Kanavuzlar, was 15 years old and died after 18 days of torment in the intensive care unit at Mugla Hospital in Turkey. She had arrived in a distressed state after falling from the fourth floor of her home. A terrible accident that ended fatally.

Husband catches wife in bed with 21-year-old boy: Young man gets angry and stabs her with scissors

The accident

According to local media reports, the young woman fell while trying to retrieve the cell phone that slipped from her hand while taking pictures. After leaning dangerously, Melike lost her balance and fell onto the sidewalk below.

The scene was captured by the surveillance camera of the neighboring buildings. A witness was helpless to witness the scene, an 11-second flight to his death. The man could only call for help while laying his hands on his desperate face. The 15-year-old was taken to the local hospital in code red and struggled for 18 days before breathing her last. The funeral was celebrated on October 30th.

Teen falls to her death trying to retrieve her phone https://t.co/b3vafJJUe1 pic.twitter.com/WKBESTH9qa

– New York Post (@nypost) November 1, 2022

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