https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed As Covid-19 rips through the impoverished Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, doctors are struggling to find beds for critical patients and teachers are walking out over a spike in infections in schools. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210331/half-our-covid-patients-are-under-age-of-43-report-staff-at-one-of-paris-most-under-pressure-hospitals Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:51:10 +0200 half-our-covid-patients-are-under-age-of-43-report-staff-at-one-of-paris-most-under-pressure-hospitals Officials in the Haute-Savoie area of France have accused private Swiss health clinics of poaching essential healthcare workers. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210104/is-switzerland-stealing-medical-staff-from-france Mon, 04 Jan 2021 17:22:54 +0100 is-switzerland-stealing-medical-staff-from-france Wearing a big grin, Marame clambers into the small electric sports car and drives off -- to the operating theatre. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180317/france-mini-cars-drive-away-childrens-fears-of-surgery Sat, 17 Mar 2018 15:20:55 +0100 france-mini-cars-drive-away-childrens-fears-of-surgery Veteran French rocker Johnny Hallyday, who has been battling lung cancer for several months, returned home on Saturday after being hospitalised for days with breathing problems, a family member said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171118/french-rocker-johnny-hallyday-released-from-hospital Sat, 18 Nov 2017 17:55:30 +0100 french-rocker-johnny-hallyday-released-from-hospital A French amputee has hit out at her country's health system claiming she was forced to get a double hand transplant on the other side of the Atlantic - even though France was the first country in the world to do a hand transplant. https://www.thelocal.fr/20161007/frenchwoman-forced-to-fly-to-us-for-hand-transplant Fri, 07 Oct 2016 12:05:24 +0200 frenchwoman-forced-to-fly-to-us-for-hand-transplant Former French president Jacques Chirac remains in hospital in Paris where he is being treated for a lung infection, while his wife Bernadette has been discharged after four days recovering from "exhaustion", their family said Saturday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160924/chirac-still-in-hospital-but-wife-now-discharged Sat, 24 Sep 2016 16:51:03 +0200 chirac-still-in-hospital-but-wife-now-discharged Former French president Jacques Chirac, 83, was admitted to hospital on Sunday with a lung infection, his son-in-law said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160918/former-french-president-chirac-admitted-to-hospital Sun, 18 Sep 2016 14:05:27 +0200 former-french-president-chirac-admitted-to-hospital A probe is underway at a hospital near Paris after a female cancer patient was given 22 session of radiotherapy on the wrong breast. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160122/french-woman-given-cancer-treatment-on-wrong-breast Fri, 22 Jan 2016 12:01:00 +0100 french-woman-given-cancer-treatment-on-wrong-breast A 13-year-old French boy lost his thumb during a routine MRI scan at a hospital in northern France, according to reports this week, which claimed the digit was "burned to the bone" after a mishap by medics. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150806/french-boy-loses-thumb-in-routine-mri-scan Thu, 06 Aug 2015 11:57:59 +0200 french-boy-loses-thumb-in-routine-mri-scan While the French government insists the famous 35-hour week is here to stay, the notorious 2002 employment reform has caused a real headache for hospital chiefs. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150521/35-hour-week-leaves-paris-hospitals-in-a-spin Thu, 21 May 2015 18:59:02 +0200 35-hour-week-leaves-paris-hospitals-in-a-spin A woman who went to hospital for what was meant to be a routine stomach operation was left blind, with her family now suing for damages to the tune of €2 million. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150505/stomach-operation-leaves-french-patient-blind Tue, 05 May 2015 13:45:14 +0200 stomach-operation-leaves-french-patient-blind With a parliamentary debate on controversial health reforms kicking off on Tuesday, doctors around the country are due to close their surgeries to show their disgust at a new system they say will cripple France's healthcare service. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150331/french-doctors-strike-anew-against-health-bill Tue, 31 Mar 2015 11:41:50 +0200 french-doctors-strike-anew-against-health-bill A woman who had an abortion in Bordeaux is suing the medical team that performed the procedure after she ended up having to have partial amputations to both arms and legs. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141024/woman-has-four-limbs-amputated-after-abortion Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:56:00 +0200 woman-has-four-limbs-amputated-after-abortion A hospital in south-central France has come up with an unconventional (not to mention extremely French) idea to try to improve the lives of terminally ill patients. It has opened up a wine bar that will offer "medically supervised" wine tasting. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140731/french-hospital-installs-wine-bar-for-patients Thu, 31 Jul 2014 17:08:00 +0200 french-hospital-installs-wine-bar-for-patients A six-year-old British boy was fighting for his life in a French hospital on Wednesday after being found unconscious in a swimming pool aboard a cruise ship off the country's Atlantic coast. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140528/british-cruise-ship-pool-hospital Wed, 28 May 2014 11:05:00 +0200 british-cruise-ship-pool-hospital An 85-year-old Frenchman trying to flee from his retirement home fell to his death when the bed sheets he'd tied together to escape from his second floor came apart, according to media reports on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140429/frenchman-85-dies-escaping-retirement-home Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:41:00 +0200 frenchman-85-dies-escaping-retirement-home A routine inventory at the prestigious French research body Institut Pasteur in Paris revealed it has lost some 2,300 tubes containing samples of the potentially deadly SARS virus. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140414/french-scientists-we-lost-some-sars-virus Mon, 14 Apr 2014 20:14:00 +0200 french-scientists-we-lost-some-sars-virus A 70-year-old man, who was given the first artificial heart at a hospital in Paris, died this week, just two and a half months after undergoing the operation. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140304/man-given-first-artificial-haert-dies-after-75-days Tue, 04 Mar 2014 09:31:00 +0100 man-given-first-artificial-haert-dies-after-75-days A French mother who gave birth to a child at a Normandy hospital in November got a nasty shock this week after learning the pain she had felt was down to a pair of pliers that a surgeon had left in her womb. The implement had lain undiscovered for six weeks. https://www.thelocal.fr/20131220/surgeon-forgets-pliers-in-young-mothers-stomach Fri, 20 Dec 2013 13:21:00 +0100 surgeon-forgets-pliers-in-young-mothers-stomach Four men dressed in turbans and north African robes caused panic among patients and staff at a hospital in Nice on Sunday night, when they stormed the building brandishing "Kalashnikovs". But the men were far from the terrorist cell they appeared to be at first glance. https://www.thelocal.fr/20131118/student-terrorists-cause-panic-in-riviera-hospital Mon, 18 Nov 2013 10:37:00 +0100 student-terrorists-cause-panic-in-riviera-hospital