a scandal in the UK, a warning from the WHO on the tobacco industry

In the United Kingdom, a scandal revealed by the BBC. A simple box is the only memory they have of the baby they have just lost. After a miscarriage, Lara, a young Briton is admitted to a London hospital. Lost, helpless and left behind, she decided to return home with her deceased baby. “No one in this hospital took care of us and our baby. We waited five hours”, says her husband. A drama that illustrates the dysfunctions and failures in British public hospitals.

In Germany, the desperate call of a mother. Her 10-year-old daughter Clara has been missing for six months. Abducted by her father, she is in Paraguay. The mother decided to call for help. The little girl is said to be hiding in a remote place in Paraguay, where anti-vaccine Germans against Covid-19 have decided to live far from any community.

The tobacco industry, a poison for the environment. In Switzerland, the World Health Organization (WHO) warns of what it considers to be one of the world’s worst polluters. “4.5 trillion cigarette butts end up in our rivers, seas and oceans every year”, says Rudiger Krech, director of health promotion at the WHO. In addition to an ecological disaster, tobacco kills eight million people worldwide every year.