PHM-Exch> Fwd: Bulletin #46: Health workers demand change

[Health PD]

This fortnight   Health workers’ protests continue as governments refuse to
translate pandemic claps into concrete investment in health systems. In
Croatia, physicians’ trade unions and associations organized a mass protest
for the protection of the health system. In South Africa, health workers
embarked on a ten-day long strike which led to severe disruptions of health
care delivery. The health workers’ trade union is now looking to
re-initiate dialogue with the government, which stalled in t

Bulletin #46: Health workers demand change
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By People's Health Dispatch – 19 Mar 2023 – View online →
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This fortnight

Health workers’ protests continue as governments refuse to translate
pandemic claps into concrete investment in health systems. In Croatia
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/19155ae0?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>,
physicians’ trade unions and associations organized a mass protest for the
protection of the health system.

In South Africa
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/4ea3c160?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>,
health workers embarked on a ten-day long strike which led to severe
disruptions of health care delivery. The health workers’ trade union is now
looking to re-initiate dialogue with the government, which stalled in the
lead up to the strike.

In the United Kingdom, health workers have been fighting on different
fronts. Nurses, doctors, and other health workers have taken a stand
against “Prevent
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/36c345b3?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>”
- the government’s new so-called counter-terrorism strategy, which will
hinder access to the public health system for those who need it most.
Additionally, between March 13 and 15, junior doctors
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/e4009006?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
in Britain held a strike for pay restoration and protection of the National
Health Service.

Health workers in Germany
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/f8cad746?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
also held a strike of warning, asking for fairer payment and support for
health staff. We bring a photo roundup of the workers’ actions in a photo
gallery.

Dr. Heinrich Niemann, specialist for social medicine in the German
Democratic Republic, talks about the introduction of the polyclinic model
in the DDR in an interview
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/b1335142?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>
with the International Research Centre DDR.
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Featured articles

*Health reforms in Croatia unlikely to address glaring gaps in coverage,
staff shortage
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/6245aeb9?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

Health workers have warned that the latest reforms proposed by Croatian
minister Vili Beroš will do nothing to reduce the workforce shortage and
burnout, or increase access to care

*Health workers in South Africa end strike after 10 days
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/f98953d1?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union in South Africa
ended a strike launched earlier this month over concerns about salaries and
inflation

*Prevent: Health workers resist UK’s ‘counter terrorism’ strategy that
weaponizes public services
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/e6224a8a?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

Public sector workers in the UK have a statutory duty under the ‘Prevent’
strategy to report ‘signs of radicalization’. The program is notorious for
targeting Muslims and uses key services like healthcare to implement
discriminatory ‘counter-terror’ tactics
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Short reads

*Public sector health workers across Germany go on warning strike
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/c37236da?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

Public health sector employees in Germany have been concerned about the
fall in real wages over three consecutive years. They are demanding fair
contracts, an increase in wages, and more staff and resources

*Junior doctors in the UK begin strike over pay restoration
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/1610a199?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

Tens of thousands of junior doctors walked off their jobs across England as
part of a 72-hour strike in an attempt to secure pay restoration and
improvement of working conditions
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*Video: The emergence of the polyclinic in the DDR
<https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/r/a2506720?m=7fbe802b-41b0-46c0-a257-5e71e0284f0a>*

Dr Heinrich Niemann, specialist for social medicine in the DDR and District
Councilor for Health in Berlin from 1992 to 2006, talks about the emergence
of the polyclinic in the German Democratic Republic in an interview with
the International Research Centre DDR
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Photo gallery: Health workers' protests roundup
Sources: Berliner Krankenhausbewegung (1-3); BMA Junior Doctors (4-5),
Trade Union of Croatian Journalists (6-7)
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