Southern District Health Board to outsource cancer treatment
12 May, 2021 09:36 PM
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Melissa Vining. Photo / Laura Smith
Otago Daily Times
Mountainous cancer treatment waiting lists have defeated the Southern District Health Board, which yesterday called for outside help to treat up to 200 people.
Patient advocates, while welcoming the prospect of much-needed diagnosis and treatment finally being provided for people possibly facing a terminal illness, were scathing of the SDHB for having let its waiting lists get to this point. I am really pleased for the people who are on the waiting list, but I m also really sad because that will cost so much money that could have been used for lots of patients, Southland cancer campaigner Melissa Vining said.
Former reality TV star Josh Duggar released awaiting child porn trial
8 May, 2021 10:30 PM
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A judge ordered that Joshua Duggar be released as he awaits trial on charges that he downloaded and possessed child pornography. Photo / AP
A judge ordered that Joshua Duggar be released as he awaits trial on charges that he downloaded and possessed child pornography. Photo / AP
AP
Former reality TV star Josh Duggar was released from an Arkansas jail this week as he awaits trial on federal charges that he possessed and downloaded child pornography.
Duggar, 33, did not speak to reporters as he walked out of the Washington County jail in Fayetteville with his attorney Thursday afternoon local time, a day after a federal judge granted Duggar s release while he awaits his July 6 (US) trial. Duggar will be confined to the home of family friends who have agreed to serve as his custodians.