Health

28 April International Workers' Memorial Day

Apr24
Vaccine box with Kick Polio out of Nigeria logo

Honouring frontline workers who’ve lost their lives while helping others


On 28 April, International Workers’ Memorial Day, Public Services International and affiliate members join in our workplaces and communities to honour fellow workers who have been injured or lost their lives in the delivery of public services.

Greece: Brain drain as 120,000 professionals leave amid crisis

Apr22
Greek demonstrators

Greece's sky-high unemployment and shrinking economy are leading to significant brain drain, a new study has found. The number of young scientists leaving Greece has become very high, as more professionals abandon their homeland for better opportunities abroad. According to the study, the number of young scientists who emigrate has reached 10 percent of the country’s potential.

Emirates’ Laws Trap a Doctor Just Passing Through

Apr16

For more than seven months, Dr. Karabus, 78, a pediatric oncologist, has been trapped in the United Arab Emirates, fighting charges of manslaughter and forgery linked to his treatment of a 3-year-old patient with a severe form of leukemia who had died under his care.

Public Services International had the strongest global union presence at the World Social Forum 26-30 March 2013 in Tunis, Tunisia. PSI hosted and co-sponsored numerous events on trade union rights, youth, water, women’s issues, tax justice, energy and climate change.

Photos: World Social Forum, Tunis 2013

Apr 15, 2013

Public Services International had the strongest global union presence at the World Social Forum 26-30 March 2013 in Tunis, Tunisia. PSI hosted and co-sponsored numerous events on trade union rights, youth, water, women’s issues, tax justice, energy and climate change.

South African health workers welcome HIV/AIDS drug decision

Apr12
one yellow pill among many grey ones

The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) has welcomed the decision by the Department of Health to launch the roll out of the Fixed Dose Combination pill (ARV), and hopes this reaches as many patients as is possible in the near future.

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World Health Worker Week, 8-12 April 2013

Apr08
A health worker and a patient walking together, smiling

For world health worker week, Public Services International is participating in the distribution of an engagement toolkit. The toolkit has been published by the Global health workforce alliance and Save the Children, in partnership with several health NGOs, including PSI.

A health worker and a patient walking together, smiling

World Health Worker Week Engagement Toolkit

4 Apr 2013

In many countries, access to health care is limited and people living in rural areas often have the hardest time accessing the most basic health services. This toolkit, created for World Health Worker Week 2013, offers some ideas that can help your organisation to encourage greater apprciation and support of health workers and show your community that health workers count.

Let's rethink childcare

Apr04

Children and families in Canada have a right to access quality, affordable childcare services. Yet, only 20% of young children today have access to a regulated space and, in many regions, childcare fees are the second highest expense for young families.

Voices of the living and the dead cry out for justice in Guatemala

Two women trade unionists, Santa Alvarado, member of PSI affiliate SNTSG, and Kira Zulueta Enriquez Mena, have been brutally murdered in two separate incidents in Guatemala. These follow on the murder of Carlos Hernández Mendoza, SNTSG union leader shot dead at 8:30 am on 8 March 2013 by two men on a motorcycle. Some five other members of SNTSG were also murdered in the last year as were several civil society activists, including agrarian reform and indigenous right activists.

Cover from the DVD and accompanying booklet Sharp Sense

Sharp sense - Promoting the safety of healthcare workers

25 Jul 2011

This is the discussion guide for the PSI DVD Sharp Sense, in which a counsellor, a nurse and a physician each talk openly about the needlestick injuries they sustained, how they faced the possible consequences for their health, for their families and for their communities, and how their lives were transformed.

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