DISPENSARY CORNER 16 March 16
March 16, 2016
ADVENTUROUS ageing?
A 92-year-old man has been
picked up by police in the UK after
motorists spotted him riding his
mobility scooter on a motorway.
According to officers the “very
confused” pensioner
found himself on the A2011 near
Crawley in West Sussex after
taking a wrong turn.
WHAT are the odds of this?
A couple in Michigan, USA
welcomed a daughter into the
world on 29 February, with baby
Evelyn Joy now their second child
to be born on a leap day.
Evelyn was born ten days after
her due date, at 3.09am, and
now shares her birthday with
sister Eliana Adaya who was born
exactly four years earlier, on 29
February 2012.
Neither baby was induced and
both were natural births, with
mother Melissa saying “it’s kind of
like winning the lottery... the baby
lottery”.
OVERCROWDING at a hospital in
Iceland has become so bad that
authorities have refitted one of its
garages as a makeshift emergency
department.
The new “garage ward” at the
National University Hospital in
Reykjavik can house six patients
and is complete with beds and
privacy screens in front of the
deactivated automatic doors.
Spokesman Hilmar Kjartansson
said “you might think this is some
kind of joke, but it’s about as far
from a joke as it could be.
“We are just trying to
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