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Antwerp has a pedestrian tunnel under the river,I walked through it yesterday.
Not really to go anywhere, just to do it 😉 It has great old wooden escalators.up and down.
I think I can remember walking 4 of these in Europe… London, Hamburg, Rotterdam and now Antwerp.
Does anyone know of any more pedestrian tunnels under rivers?
Ten internationally recruited medical staff (nurses and doctors) have been fired from a Finnish healthcare region.
The recruitment process was mainly taken care of by an international recruiting company. The people hired turned out to not be able to work independently because of lacking language and medical skills – each fired worker essentially required an experienced and fluent speaker next to them to get things done.
Rumours of similar situations have been around for several years – this seems to be a rare case in that the leaders of the region have decided to admit the staff was useless and potentially dangerous for patients. A step in the right direction if you ask me. Some nurses have not understood medication instructions, giving a patient several times the correct doseage, etc. I’ve even heard someone labeled as an actual nurse to make a patient ingest eyedrops by mouth because of lack of understanding.
I’ve been to a doctor with lacking Finnish skills twice. One of them used the equivalent word to ‘hustle’ in a report, when the subject at hand was ‘human agency’.
Something happened which happens basically never. A piece of information that I had no hope of finding during my research project (so much so that I didn’t even look for it) got delivered to me on a silver plate. It is so bizarre. I have been trying to find out where the problem or mistake is, but it seems legit. Huh.
We are having near-perfect vegetable growth weather here. We get a few hours of rain, then it’s sunny and hot. If I were a cucumber I would be thriving.