Open-source initiative to share reports of health worker protests around the world. Launched by ARC @AcctResearchCtr retweet does not equal endorsement
The COVID-19 epidemic has put unprecedented strain on health care systems around the world. Frontline health workers are still at great risk, from lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) to discrimination and harassment or repercussions for whistleblowing #HealthWorkerProtest
“How hard can it be to maintain these records?” Rehan Raja asked. “Not keeping count goes to show how less the government cares for our welfare—for the sacrifices we and our families have made.”
From 2020, @chahat_rana1 reports: https://t.co/CfK8fWvU8a
So 40,000 SEIU Kaiser workers are joining the 32,000 Alliance Kaiser workers in a "sympathy strike." Then 8,000 others may join shortly, as well as NUHW, pharmacists, and engineers. We are talking 80,000+ Kaiser workers on strike. One of the largest healthcare strikes in history.
#UnionStrong nurses at @CommHealthChi in Chicago — where three RNs died of Covid, and at least 60 tested positive for the virus — are united in their decision to go on #RNStrike to fight for safe patient care.
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READ: 7years after 94 community #health workers were arrested during a vigil at @fs_health’s headquarters, Bophelo House, the struggles of #CHWs in the @fsgov continue as they are still calling for job security. @SECTION27news@RefilweMochoari
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No air conditioning at IMSS hospital in Veracruz, health workers protest #HealthWorkerProtestMexico IMSS hospital has had no air conditioning for 9 months, health workers including nurses, orderlies + staff protested blocking a highway for several minutes https://t.co/hJRqiX9zJ4
In Myanmar, Health Care’s Collapse Takes Its Own Toll #HealthWorkerProtestMyanmar “I know there are hundreds of people dying per week,” said Dr. Kyaw Moe, one of the striking Mandalay General surgeons, who now sees patients at a private clinic https://t.co/QYuWhnMLWg
"It'll take collective action on a mass scale to get the protections we need and ensure an equitable end to the pandemic." — Deborah Burger, RN and NNU president
#Nurses know: None of us are safe until all of us are safe! 💪 #VaccineEquity
Mexico’s doctors protest as vaccines denied to frontline health workers #HealthWorkerProtestMexico Protests by desperate medical workers received little sympathy from federal govert. The president said unvaccinated health workers should “wait their turn” https://t.co/Gj4JpFhv80