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Gathered mainly from international media sources December 2020 - March 2021 |
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Large globs of tar have washed up on much of Israel's Mediterranean coastline in what officials are calling one of the worst environmental disasters to hit the country. Thousands of volunteers and soldiers are helping to clear the pollutant which is damaging wildlife. Israel is trying to track the source of the pollution, which is thought to have come from a ship spilling oil. The general population has been told to avoid the beaches. Dozens of tonnes of tar have been found on many stretches of Israel's 190km (120 miles) Mediterranean coastline and there are fears it will take months, or even years to clean up. NGOs have reported turtles and birds covered in oil. The pollution is "one of the most serious ecological disasters" in Israel's history, according to the Nature and Parks Authority. Why do oil spills keep happening? The source is thought to be an oil spill produced during a storm on 11 February from a ship some 50km (30 miles) off the coast. Satellite imagery and wave patterns are being used to trace the ship responsible. Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel said nine ships were being investigated. The Israeli government is considering legal action to win compensation which could run to millions of dollars. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been inspecting the damage at one of the beaches. Last Thursday, a 17m-long (55ft) fin whale was found dead on a beach in southern Israel, and the Nature and Parks Authority said an autopsy had found an oil-based product - a black liquid - in its system. However, an official said it was too early to say whether the liquid came from the same oil spill. |
| British surgeons in children’s heart transplant breakthrough The Royal Papworth Hospital has been able to make hearts start beating again. NHS doctors have reportedly become the first in the world to complete heart transplants in children using organs brought back to life by a ground-breaking machine. Donated hearts have historically come from people who are brain-dead but whose hearts are still beating, which limits the scope for the number of transplants possible. But the Sunday Times says surgeons from the Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire have been able to make hearts start beating again after they had stopped, and successfully transplanted them into children. The doctors have used a heart-in-a-box machine called the Organ Care System to bring the hearts back to life once removed from the donor. The machine replicates the conditions of the human body. Once a defibrillation pulse is used to start the hearts beating again, they are kept warm and have 1.5 litres of the donor’s blood pumped through them in a cycle, and receive nutrients. Doctors are also able to regulate the heart rate by remote control if necessary. The hearts have then been flown to London for transplanting at Great Ormond Street Hospital, the newspaper reported. The technique had been tried in adults before, but has now saved the lives of six British children aged between 12 and 16 since last February, all of whom had life-threatening conditions. On average, children have to wait two-and-a-half times longer than adults for hearts to become available. The breakthrough is expected to allow a substantial expansion in the number of donor hearts available, reduce post-operation complications, speed recoveries, increase transplant survival rates and save hundreds of lives, the paper says. The first patient to benefit from the procedure was Anna Hadley, now 16, from Worcester, who had waited almost two years for her heart transplant. “I just feel normal again. There’s nothing I cannot do now,” she told the paper. Dr John Forsythe, medical director for organ donation and transplantation at NHS Blood and Transplant, said: “This new technique will save lives both here and around the world. “It means people can donate their hearts where it wouldn’t have been possible in the past, giving life to patients on the waiting list.” |
| Earlier this week, the Gaza Strip received its first doses of the vaccine after Israel approved the transfer through its border. The shipment included 2,000 doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine which will be used on patients who have had organ transplants and those with kidney failure, an official told Reuters news agency. It comes as the Palestinian Health Ministry struck a deal with Israel's Health Ministry to vaccinate 100,000 Palestinians who work in the country. Perhaps the road to peace between Israel and Palestinian Territories is via Israel taking responsibility and administration of healthcare of all Palestinians. |
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