In war-torn northwest Syria, earthquake survivors struggle to find medical care | 60 Minutes

After February’s cataclysmic series of earthquakes, the world poured emergency relief into Turkey and Syria. But some of those who suffered the most were nearly impossible to reach. they were already fighting to survive a war zone. Recently, we traveled to this battleground in northwest Syria to meet an American medical charity that braved the odds — bringing hands of healing and hope.

In the night, February 6th, death seemed a certainty… and life, a revelation.

Through northwest Syria, 10 thousand buildings crumbled. In towns that stood for millennia, the catastrophe was biblical.

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Earthquakes in February devestated Syria.

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Nurses organize to champion contract demands, raise awareness over ‘threats’ to public health care

Nurses are expected to gather across Ontario for a “community day of action” to champion their contract demands and raise awareness over what they say are threats to Ontario’s publicly-funded hospital and health care system.

The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) has been calling for an improved contract for some 60,000 members in the hospital sector since talks started earlier this year. In March, talks between the union and the Ontario Hospital Association ended without an agreement, sending the parties to arbitration expected to start sometime early next month.

“Simply put, our patients need and deserve better care,” ONA interim provincial

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Help Revise the National PE Standards – PHE America

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School districts across the country rely on in order to develop their own standards, frameworks and curricula.

As part of the ongoing standards revision process, SHAPE America’s has tirelessly gathered research and best practices from education experts around the world, and has collected feedback from the HPE community. Based on the feedback from the first round of Public Review and Comment, SHAPE America, and the National Physical Education Standards Task Force have developed proposed Student Attributes and Draft Standards, which are now available

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Well being-care competitors harnesses the mind energy of UNB undergrads

An upcoming competitors to seek out options to health-care issues is harnessing the mind energy of undergraduate college students on the College of New Brunswick.

Join the Ideas is now in its third 12 months of making an attempt to enhance the province’s health-care system, explains this 12 months’s co-chair Dustin McKee.

He mentioned college students are “typically ignored or are a bit bit dismissed simply because we’re so younger.”

McKee mentioned “undergraduate college students can supply loads of new insights to health-care points. I perceive that we could not have loads of expertise working in well being care immediately,

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