In Brief: Medical negligence; Accidents at work; German bishop apologizes

A 75-year old man has died in a hospital in Łomża a week after surgeons found a cloth in his intestines which had been left there while he was operated on a few years ago. It remains a mystery when exactly the cloth was left as the man had been through several operations. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3) ... The number of accidents at work reported last year was 80,000 - 5% lower than in 2001. The number of people who died at work was 520 - 28 fewer than in 2001. The data was announced by the Economy Ministry and excludes data from private farms. Most accidents are caused by worker negligence or lack of experience. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3) ... Yesterday in Gniezno the president of the Commission of Episcopates of EU states, German bishop Josef Homeyer, apologized to Poles for all the crimes committed against Poland by Germans over the last two centuries. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 6) K.Ż.