General Hospital Spoilers: A Big Idea, Bad News, Gunshots

General Hospital Spoilers Monday, July 10: A Big Idea, Bad News, Gunshots

General Hospital spoilers and updates for Monday, July 10 tease a big idea, bad news, and gunshots! Kristina Corinthos-Davis (Kate Mansi) has a big idea, Dex Heller (Evan Hofer) gets bad news, and Dante Falconeri (Dominic Zamprogna) tries to hold off a sniper.

General Hospital Spoilers – Josslyn Jacks Catches Up With Trina Robinson

It looks like Josslyn Jacks (Eden McCoy) and Trina Robinson (Tabyana Ali) might be in the Spencer home back yard, as they talk about Dex Heller (Evan Hofer).

Josslyn is probably referring to Spencer Cassadine (Nicholas Alexander Chavez) when she tells Trina “his bad impression about Dex is really about me.”

Josslyn is obviously referring to her unfair move of starting an affair with Dex before breaking up with Cameron Webber (William Lipton).

Spencer knew about it and how badly Cameron was hurt by Josslyn’s infidelity, a friendship since childhood was actually destroyed over it. Elsewhere, Spencer’s got other issues to deal with.

GH Spoilers – Big Brother Daddy Duty

Spencer’s over at General Hospital arguing with Esmé Prince (Avery Kristen Pohl) over his “big brother daddy duty.” Esmé appears to be accusing him of non-cooperation concerning their “co-parenting” of Ace Prince Cassadine (Joey and Jay Clay).

Spencer is angry as he tells her this IS him cooperating! Spencer and Esmé are at the hospital to take some parenting classes, since Spencer is Ace’s father figure in the long-term absence of Nikolas Cassadine (Adam Huss).

General Hospital Spoilers – Big Idea

At the Savoy, Sam McCall, (Kelly Monaco) Kristina Corinthos-Davis (Kate Mansi) and Alexis Davis (Nancy Lee Grahn) are still talking at the table.

TJ Ashford (Tajh Bellow) and Molly Lansing-Davis (Holiday Mia Kriegel) stepped away for a dance. Sam wants to know what Kristina’s big idea was – she just burst out with an idea to be TJ and Molly’s surrogate.

As if that wasn’t a big enough idea Kristina might offer to be the egg donor too. Molly, however, had overheard and wasn’t prepared to hear it.

GH Spoilers – Avoidance

Not far away, Molly talks to TJ regarding what she overheard and tells him she doesn’t want to be around her mother and sisters for the time being.

TJ of course, asks why she wouldn’t want to be around them, which she no doubt will explain. It’s difficult for Molly to deal with, although she will ponder the offer. It’s a huge, huge decision which all would need to agree on.

General Hospital Spoilers – Alexis Davis Advises Caution

Alexis will advise caution as Kristina says she couldn’t disagree more, about plunging into surrogate motherhood and egg donation without even getting checked up.

Numerous medical preparation would need to take place, including Kristina being tested to make sure she has viable eggs and could carry a baby. Then blood tests to make sure everyone’s compatible and that there are no genetic disorders that could happen.

Fire-aim-ready Kristina is already planning her surrogate pregnancy and it hasn’t even been broached with TJ and Molly! At least not intentionally!

GH Spoilers – Bad News

Dex gets bad news as he’s on the phone getting ready to join Josslyn and Trina, it looks like. He’s gotten the call about the gunshots at the Metro Court Pool and asks where Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) is, and if he’s ok.

He wasn’t with Sonny that evening and when Sonny and Dante were sharing a meal where Sonny asked Dante to be his best man, Dante noticed.

Sonny had claimed he had everything under control and Anna Devane (Finola Hughes) had given him a message. She’d told him that Valentin Cassadine (James Patrick Stuart) had a warning not to deal with any new contact person from Pikeman.

General Hospital Spoilers – Harrison Chase Calls It In

In the meantime, Harrison Chase (Josh Swickard) walks through the Metro Court restaurant area calling in gunshots fired at the Metro Court Pool. Dante had come out toward the pool from the inside when he looked up and spotted a sniper, shouting for everyone to get down!

The big question is who was the sniper aiming for-Sonny and Anna were both there, with Anna having had “murderer” spray painted in red on her door.

Valentin had notified Jordan Ashford (Tanisha Harper) and she and Anna talked about it before she called Sonny over to talk. Could this be an attack from Pikeman, or someone else with it in for Anna?

GH Spoilers – Gunshots

It looks like more gunshots are coming, as Dante points his gun and shoots, trying to hold off the sniper. Jordan, at the table with Zeke Robinson (Gavin Houston) after Anna left, screams “GET DOWN!”

Portia Robinson (Brook Kerr) was standing close to them while Curtis Ashford (Donnell Turner) was approaching from the door. Who will take the bullet, Curtis or Portia-chances are, he’ll push Portia out of the way! Or will more people be shot before it’s over?

Be sure to catch up on everything happening with GH right now. Come back here often for General Hospital spoilers, news, and updates.

Harris started ‘like a rocket’ in Michigan. Now she’s slipping

Marcie Paul is nervous.

A Democratic activist, Ms Paul has been knocking on hundreds of strangers’ doors, making phone calls and sending out flyers, all in an effort to woo people here to vote for Kamala Harris.

When Harris replaced President Joe Biden as the Democratic candidate in July, Ms Paul was hopeful, as she saw the vice-president go “off like a rocket” in Michigan.

The state is one of three “blue wall” states – along with Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – that went Democrat in 2020, and if won again, would help clinch a presidential victory for Harris.

But with less than a month to go before election day, Harris’s honeymoon period in Michigan could be ending, leaving her pathway to victory less certain. A Quinnipiac poll last week indicated Donald Trump is leading in the swing state by three points.

“To keep that pace for the whole race – even though it’s seriously abbreviated – would be really unrealistic for anyone,” said Ms Paul, a resident of West Bloomfield, Michigan and co-founder of the liberal advocacy group Fems for Dems. “But I thought that we’d be a little more comfortable.”

Ms Paul is among several Democratic organisers and lawmakers in Michigan who say the presidential race here is tighter than expected, even as the Harris campaign appears to be heeding lessons from 2016. Critics say then-Democratic presidential

Up north, immigration and economy take centre stage

Although the state is far from the southern border, Democratic organisers keep hearing that immigration is a top concern for Michigan voters.

“I don’t understand why,” said Ms Paul, the Fems for Dems leader. “It’s just really not relevant for us.”

But the issue has resonated with many of the voters the BBC spoke to, including Mary Beierschmitt of Novi, Michigan.

“It’s a big issue,” she said, adding that she thought Harris had not handled the situation well as vice-president, when Harris was tasked with finding solutions to tackle the source of migration.

Illegal border crossing reached a record high last year. After the Biden administration enacted asylum restrictions, they fell to their lowest in four years.

Trump has made attacks on Harris’s immigration record a central part of his campaign. His focus has not just been at the southern border, but in midwestern states as well, including Michigan’s neighbour Ohio, where the former president has falsely claimed Haitian immigrants are settling illegally in the town of Springfield and eating residents’ pets.

Voters tend to blame the party in power for their frustrations with national issues like the economy and immigration, even if the Biden administration isn’t solely responsible for the border crisis and the rising cost of living, said Jonathon Hanson, a lecturer at University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy.

“The downside for Harris and Biden is, although they’ve done a lot of things to help the economy recover from a major downturn, it’s a more difficult story to tell politically,” he said.

Trump also may have the upper hand among some swing voters in Michigan because he is more well known than Harris after four years in office and years in the public eye, said Mr Hanson.

Tim and Janet of Novi, Michigan, say they know Trump’s personality well – and they don’t like it. But the independent voters already cast their ballots for Trump because they believe he is better at articulating his policies than Harris.

“I can’t vote for somebody just because it’s a feel-good time,” said Tim, a 75-year-old who declined to share his last name for privacy reasons. “They need to be doing things and have policy initiatives that are going to be beneficial.”

But in the Detroit suburb of Warren, Harris’s new economic policies are swaying independent voter Darrell Sumpter.

The vice-president has laid out a number of economic proposals during her campaign, including a plan to offer first-time home buyers an average of $25,000, and an expansion of the child tax credit.

“I’ve never been able to even afford a house. I’ve been waiting for years,” said Mr Sumpter, 52, who voted for Trump in 2020 and is leaning toward Harris this year.

“I don’t want the country to regress right back to the same state it was with Trump,” he added.

Darrell Sumpter is excited by the possibilities of Harris’s economic proposals

The placentas fuelling hospital kitchens in Nepal

The burning of medical waste poses a serious health and environmental danger. Hospitals in Nepal have started turning this hazardous waste into cooking gas.

Hospital staff close to the incinerator complained of persistent coughs, breathing difficulties, headaches, sore eyes and rashes. The black, noxious smoke that poured out of its chimney wafted in through the windows of Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu. Staff reluctantly closed them to protect their vulnerable patients: children and babies in paediatric and neonatal intensive care, and adults with respiratory illnesses.

“Keeping the windows shut caused the rooms to overheat and added to the discomfort,” recalls Deepak Mahara, former TUTH executive director who has now retired. “When the incinerator was operational, smoke frequently drifted into these sensitive areas, causing significant distress. The foul smell made the work environment uncomfortable.”

Despite this, no one realised their symptoms were connected to the incinerator’s emissions until 2014, when a local non-profit, the Health Environment and Climate Action Foundation (HECAF360), approached hospital managers to suggest replacing the offensive furnace with an underground biodigester. Staff not only faced long-term health conditions if they continued to be exposed to the poisoned air, but the hospital was also causing broader public health and environmental dangers, HECAF360 warned. Low-quality incineration of health care waste releases dioxins and furans into the atmosphere – chemicals both classified as human carcinogens. While medical waste that is dumped outside of hospital grounds poses risks to anyone who may come into contact with it, such as waste pickers on dump sites.

“We were unaware of the negative impact of the mismanagement of healthcare waste,” says Mahara. Realising the issue was serious, he agreed to take action. “It needed to be addressed immediately to comply with hospital’s mission to ‘do no harm’,” he says.

Alamy About 5.2 million people die each year from waste-related diseases around the world (Credit: Alamy) — About 5.2 million people die each year from waste-related diseases around the world (Credit: Alamy)

The situation at TUTH is common. Hospitals worldwide use incinerators to eradicate rubbish. It is the method most commonly used in developing countries to dispose of infectious waste, according to a UN Human Rights Council report. The report highlights that if medical facilities have small-scale incinerators, or manage them incorrectly, this can lead to dioxins emissions that are 40,000 times higher than emission limits set forth in the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.

In Nepal, hospitals and healthcare centres generate between 1 and 1.7kg (2.2 and 3.7lb) of healthcare waste per bed each day, according to Health Care Without Harm (HCWH), a global non-profit working to reduce healthcare services’ negative impacts on the environment and people. One study estimates low-income countries produce up to 6kg (13.3lb) of hazardous waste per bed per day, which rises to 11kg (24.3lb) in high-income nations.

The safe approach to medical waste management is to separate and treat wastes differently. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 15% of healthcare waste is hazardous material that may be infectious, toxic or radioactive. Waste must all be segregated before disposal, but just one-third of healthcare facilities do this. This has a detrimental impact on people and the planet. About 5.2 million people, including four million children, die each year from waste-related diseases around the world.

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