By Lin Hui-chin / Staff reporterThe number of stroke cases in Taiwan has been growing in the past few years, exceeding 470,000 last year, with people aged 50 or younger accounting for about 10 percent and people aged 60 or younger accounting for about 25 percent, which shows that younger people are increasingly at risk.
A hospital worker had difficulty believing a woman who said that she had accidentally swallowed a toothbrush, the doctor who removed the item said on Wednesday.
Tsai Yuan-jung (蔡元榮), a gastroenterologist and hepatologist at Pingtung Christian Hospital, said that the attending nurse asked the woman to repeat her problem several times, thinking that she had misheard her.
“The whole toothbrush?” the nurse had asked, Tsai said.
The woman told medical staff that she accidentally swallowed the object while brushing her teeth in a daze having woken up early that morning.
She reported pain in her chest, the hospital said, adding that it withheld the
2021/04/07 12:19 Medical workers receiving AstraZeneca vaccine at Pingtung Christian Hospital. Medical workers receiving AstraZeneca vaccine at Pingtung Christian Hospital. (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) More than 17,000 adults in Taiwan have received at least their first coronavirus shot as of Tuesday (April 6) as the country expanded vaccinations to all healthcare facility workers. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) Spokesman Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥) pointed out that Taiwan’s rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine is largely on schedule. The country began its vaccination campaign on March 22, and 17,245 adults had received the first dose by Tuesday, with 64 having experienced adverse reactions, he said.