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The numbers of Icelandic nurses applying for licence to practise in Norway are 17 times higher than in 2008; the nurses go for seasonal work working double-shifts day after day.
Overview of Landspítali hospital in Reykjavík. Photo by DOM
Most of the nurses I work with in the Emergency Room have gone to Norway for a week or 10 days and made about half a million Icelandic krónur (USD 4300 or EUR 3000), Lilja Bolladóttir told Morgunbladid; she is one of many nurses applying for a licence to practise in Norway.
Flights and accommodation are paid for and for the short work periods, nurses work double-shifts day after day and sleep in-between shift; the money they make is not much higher than they could earn in an Icelandic hospitals for a double-shifts, mbl.is reports.
“There is too much uncertainty in the Icelandic health care system and the pressure medical staff is under is expected to continue. No one knows what to expect,” Elsa B. Fridfinnsdóttir, chairman of the Nurses Union told Morgunbladid. Wards are mostly understaffed and medical staff is under a great deal of pressure on daily basis.
“Medical staff in Icelandic hospitals can expect wards to be closed or changes in opening hourse to be announced at any given moment in the present state,” Fridfinnsdóttir told Morgunbladid.
Click here, here and here to read more about budget cuts in the Icelandic health Care System.
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A petition urging the government to reconsider a proposed bill, in which the terms of the law requiring fishing companies to pay a tariff for their use of Iceland’s fishing resources are to be changed, has been signed by more than 11,000 people.
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Prime Minister of Iceland Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson is meeting with Prime Minister of Sweden Frederik Reinfeldt today, 
A three-meter long walrus was discovered on the shores by Eyri in the town of Reyðarfjörður in East Iceland yesterday.
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In 1915, women aged 40 and over were granted the right to cast a vote in all official elections held in Iceland.
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The 2013 June-July issue of Iceland Review is out. Themed ‘We Are Young’ the magazine celebrates the arrival of summer by interviewing young energetic Icelanders who excel in art, sports, business and politics—and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, the youngest PM in the republic’s history and the world’s youngest ruling state leader. Click here to take a look at a selection of the current issue and here to subscribe to the magazine.
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The road to Höfn, a 1,690-person harbor town by the fjord Hornafjörður, is lined with reindeer. Whole herds of the wild horned animals rest peacefully on withered pastures, grace next to sheep and horses and bounce along the road. Soon, Vatnajökull, Europe’s largest glacier and the region’s biggest attraction, comes into view. Looming over Höfn, its outlet glaciers flow down from the mountains on which the bright white icecap rests.
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Sin Fang will celebrate the release of his third album with a release concert in Iðnó on June 12. Flowers was released in February by Morr Music and has been well received by music enthusiasts and critics alike. The concert will be supported by Vök, this year’s winners of the Icelandic Music Experiments.
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