17 August 2023
Photo: Screenshot from the video The claims about the alleged trafficking of people and organs in Ukraine are not substantiated with evidence and are based on arbitrary positions of the YouTuber Morris, known for spreading such disinformation in his show on previous occasions. This is familiar Russian propaganda and disinformation, according to which Western countries, […]
15 June 2023
Photo: Screenshot – Twitter Mel Gibson is not making a documentary on child sex trafficking. The founder of a non-profit organization in Utah dealing with child sex trafficking, previously suggested the actor to provide initial support for a documentary, but he confirmed for Associated Press that Gibson was not involved in the making of the […]
9 June 2023
Photo: Erik Drost on Wikimedia Commons The missing children from Cleveland and those taken from Ukraine cannot be compared at all. The context and circumstances are totally different. The circumstances of the children from Cleveland have not been clarified yet and there is no indication of an established pattern or tendency that they all disappeared […]
6 June 2023
Photo: Screenshot from the video There were also attempts previously on social networks to accuse Ukraine of mobilizing children by using videos of young-looking boys. But, that is not true – according to Ukrainian laws, only adult persons can be conscripted by the Army, writes Truthmeter.mk. Under the content-sharing agreement between Truthmeter.mk and Meta.mk, we […]
31 March 2023
The claims presented in the post that Putin is saving children from the “pedophile clutches of the west”, are pure fabrication and conspiracy theory without evidence or facts. The Court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Putin for committing war crimes with the deportation of Ukrainian children from the occupied territories in Russia. […]
4 February 2022
Children with cerebral palsy in Ohrid live in complete isolation. They do not have any day care centers. Parents complain that their children are discriminated against and excluded from society, Truthmeter.mk writes. Author: Sonja Rilkovska Children with cerebral palsy from Ohrid face total isolation. Excluded from the educational process and social life, fully […]
4 February 2022
Educational inclusion is a process that lasts more than two decades, which is being delayed not only due to bad laws but also due to low public awareness, Truthmeter.mk writes. Author: Zoran Dimovski Forty students with disabilities from Polog, starting this school year have educational assistants who provide support in learning, within the […]
12 November 2021
The Task group for the revision of the Rulebook for the norms and the standards of nutrition in the kindergartens held a working meeting in the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy of North Macedonia. Some radical changes were on the table. The Task group recommends increased intake of fresh fruits and vegetables, but also […]
22 October 2021
Two days after Meta.mk’s published its interview with the 16-year-old Mia Chichkarikj which suffers from juvenile diabetes Type 1, Venko Filipche, the health minister of North Macedonia announced acquisition of ‘painless’ glucose monitors. That was what Mia had requested in the interview when she stated that the greatest wish she has was for all the […]
13 August 2021
At the doctor’s surgery “Mediko Marija” every day there are patients who are complaining of issues typical for stomach viruses, but later it proves to be COVID-19, says Dr. Vesna Stojanova – Atanasovska, a general medicine doctor. According to her findings in the last period, more and more children and teenagers are complaining about issues […]
9 July 2021
A team of specialists today will be examining the type of respiratory infection after the Ministry of Health informed that in the past month at the hospital in Gevgelija, medical help was asked by parents of 50 children and babies with symptoms of respiratory infections, unspecific for this period of the year. Macedonia’s Health Minister […]
19 October 2020
Since the kindergartens were reopened, 18 children and 55 employees have tested positive for COVID-19, and it he period between 9th and 16th of October, there were 6 children and 21 employees who were registered positive. It is evident that the number of infected is on the rise, stressed today the Minister of Labor and […]
2 September 2020
The government of North of Macedonia in the meeting yesterday adopted the Information on the re-opening of the institutions for care and education of children – kindergartens/Early child development centres, which is planned for 9th of September, the Government’s Press Office informs. In the next period, the kindergartens around the country will have to prepare […]
7 August 2020
“Support for online teaching in the 2020/2021 school year” is the name of a Facebook Group which counts 3.500 members from North Macedonia, and these days, when stil there are many unknowns about the start of the new academic year, the commentaries are reaching the fever pitch. Many parents announced they won’t let their children […]
14 May 2019
The Minister of Education and Science Arber Ademi thinks that one of the options for finding a solution is that unvaccinated children to be enrolled in school, and then to be vaccinated. “Meta” news agency has found out that he and Minister for Health Venko Filipche will make a decision today about what to do […]
10 April 2019
A new global report by UNICEF points out that 176 million pre-school age children do not attend pre-schools and calls on governments around the world to increase their investment to secure the best start for each child. In our country, almost 41,000 children – approximately 61 percent of pre-school children (3 to 6 years old) […]
4 March 2019
Every day, the Clinic for Infectious Diseases reports an average of 7 to 10 people infected with the measles; this tempo indicates that the epidemic will last until the summer, say the Ministry of Health. For the measles epidemic to be declared over, there should be no reports of the disease twice within 12 days. There were […]
24 January 2019
There was no vaccination on the first day in the second term because according to the data only 5% of school children have not been vaccinated with the MMR vaccine, which is not a large percentage, the Ministry of Health told “Meta”. “The Committee on Infectious Diseases at the last meeting decided not to prolong the winter school vacation, […]
10 January 2019
Seven new symptomatic cases of measles infection were reported today at the Public Health Institute. Primarius dr. Gordana Kuzmanovska, an epidemiologist at the Institute, stressed that these aren’t yet registered cases, but that the laboratory analysis will follow and then there will be a confirmation or not. -All of the cases were received from the […]
8 January 2019
From today, state health inspectors and environmental health officers will continue to monitor kindergartens, after a temporary ban on the admission of children who haven’t been vaccinated with the MRI vaccine, Irina Bukhova, the director of the inspectorate, told “Meta”. “Our inspectors have been in the field since the ban began. From all the kindergartens […]
