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Nurses' Forum

In India, outstanding responses to nurses union call for mass casual leave

10 March 2016
All India Government Nurses Federation (AIGNF)/Facebook

On the 26th of February, more than 12,000 nurses under the banner of the All India Government Nurses Federation (AIGNF) were off-duty to protest against “retrograde recommendations” of the 7th Central Pay Commission. In case the government remains deaf to their demands, an indefinite strike will start from the 15th of March on.

Longer breaks between shifts promote nurses' recovery from work

06 July 2015

A new study by the University of Eastern Finland shows that reducing short breaks between shifts helps nurses recover from work.

Nurses and healthcare workers speak out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

30 June 2015
Photo: Nurses - Creative Commons - Australian DFAT

PSI, Geneva, 30 June - Nurses, midwives and healthcare workers from the across the Pacific, Latin America and North America condemn the controversial TPP trade deal.

WHO new injection safety policy will also protect health workers

27 February 2015

On 23 February, the World Health Organization launched a new policy for safer therapeutic injections at an international meeting on injection safety in Geneva.

Iranian nurses demonstrate for fair pay

24 February 2015
Iranian nurse - Photo Creative Commons Aliahmad201132

Around 2000 nurses gathered in front of the Iranian Parliament in the early hours of Sunday 22 February to protest their poor pay and conditions and the government’s failure to implement regulated rates for nursing services.

Ebola health workers' training workshop

10 September 2014

On 2 September 2014, the Medical and Health Workers’ Union of Nigeria, a PSI affiliate held a one-day training the trainers’ workshop, together with a formal launch of the WHO Interim Infection Prevention and Control Guidance for Care of Patients with Suspected or Confirmed Filovirus Haemorrhagic Fever in Health-Care Settings, with Focus on Ebola in Nigeria (find link below). Brother Ayuba Wabba, National President of the union, addressed the workshop participants.

Guidance to PSI unions on the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in West Africa

11 August 2014

11 August 2014. Public Services International affiliated health workers’ unions in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone first warned their employers, their governments and the media of the threat of Ebola virus disease (EBV) early in 2014. Five months later, faced with the spread of the disease, including new cases in Nigeria - and the danger to health care workers in particular, the international community is mobilising. And these same health workers’ unions, as well as those in other countries, stand ready to support efforts to stop the spread.