31.   Treat them with pills, then discharge them from the hospitals, tell them to take the medicine themselves, close the hospitals.

32.   Venezuelan congressmen met with Tachira state government officials to end a two-day strike by government doctors that has closed all hospitals in the western border state.

33.   With downsizing, many military hospitals have been closed and space for veteran retirees is often just not available.

34.   Opposition parties suggest the Liberals plan to close hospitals and implement user fees if they are re-elected.

35.   After bandits attacked a vehicle belonging to Wamba Hospital in June, the Bishop of Marsabit threatened to close the hospital if security was not restored.

36.   At least five city hospitals were closed by power and flood problems.

37.   Budget-cutting provincial governments are closing hospitals and laying off nurses.

38.   But many worry that Italy does not have enough alternative facilities to house patients once the hospitals are closed.

39.   Gov. Christie Whitman in April ordered that the hospital be closed in three years, after decades of problems that included attacks on patients, patient suicides and overcrowding.

40.   Guhl said no single incident triggered the decision to close the hospital.