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Danish mag slammed for ultra-thin model

A photo of a fashion model who appears dangerously thin was the talk of Danish social media Thursday, leading to an eventual apology from Cover magazine.

Published: 19 February 2015 12:13 CET
Danish mag slammed for ultra-thin model
This photo from Cover magazine was practically unavoidable on Danish social media, with countless users expressing outrage.
The Danish fashion magazine Cover found itself in the centre of a storm of controversy Thursday after a photo of an ultra-thin model was heavily criticized on social media. 
 
After backlash on Facebook and Twitter, where the hashtag #covergate was spawned, the magazine apologized for its “huge mistake”.
 
“I’ve made magazines for more than ten years and this time unfortunately I made a huge mistake, which I would like to apologize for,” the magazine’s founder, Malene Malling, told TV2, adding that the photo “should not have been published”. 
 
Although the magazine apologized, it continued to face criticism both for portraying a model so thin that she appears malnourished and for allegedly deleting negative comments on its Facebook page. 
 
Politicians even jumped into the fray, including Tax Minister Benny Englebrecht. 
 
"I seriously thought that the fashion industry had understood that anorexia is a problem that should be taken seriously," he wrote on Twitter. 

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Lengthy waiting times at Danish hospitals not going away yet: minister

Danish Minister for the Interior and Health Sophie Løhde has warned that, despite increasing activity at hospitals, it will be some time before current waiting lists are reduced.

Published: 10 May 2023 15:09 CEST
Lengthy waiting times at Danish hospitals not going away yet: minister

The message comes as Løhde was set to meet with officials from regional health authorities on Wednesday to discuss the progress of an acute plan for the Danish health system, launched at the end of last year in an effort to reduce a backlog of waiting times which built up during the coronavirus crisis.

An agreement with regional health authorities on an “acute” spending plan to address the most serious challenges faced by the health services agreed in February, providing 2 billion kroner by the end of 2024.

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The national organisation for the health authorities, Danske Regioner, said to newspaper Jyllands-Posten earlier this week that progress on clearing the waiting lists was ahead of schedule.

Some 245,300 operations were completed in the first quarter of this year, 10 percent more than in the same period in 2022 and over the agreed number.

Løhde said that the figures show measures from the acute plan are “beginning to work”.

“It’s positive but even though it suggests that the trend is going the right way, we’re far from our goal and it’s important to keep it up so that we get there,” she said.

“I certainly won’t be satisfied until waiting times are brought down,” she said.

“As long as we are in the process of doing postponed operations, we will unfortunately continue to see a further increase [in waiting times],” Løhde said.

“That’s why it’s crucial that we retain a high activity this year and in 2024,” she added.

Although the government set aside 2 billion kroner in total for the plan, the regional authorities expect the portion of that to be spent in 2023 to run out by the end of the summer. They have therefore asked for some of the 2024 spending to be brought forward.

Løhde is so far reluctant to meet that request according to Jyllands-Posten.

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