<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Peoples Health Dispatch</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:health@peoplesdispatch.org">health@peoplesdispatch.org</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 12:49 AM<br>Subject: Bulletin #17: Health workers want a fair post-pandemic world<br>To: <<a href="mailto:ana@phmovement.org">ana@phmovement.org</a>><br></div><br><br><u></u>
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<span style="color:transparent;display:none;height:0;max-height:0;max-width:0;opacity:0;overflow:hidden;width:0">This fortnight
While the number of omicron-related cases continues to increase, health workers
are taking action for better working conditions. Their strikes and protests are
a result of years of unresolved issues, which, in the middle of the pandemic,
became even more pressing.
In Barbados
, nurses are calling for better staffing in health institutions. Security guards
at the Great Ormond </span>
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<div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/2022/01/people_s_health_dispatch_double_size-2--1.jpg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="71"></div><h2 id="m_5327740599549276659this-fortnight" style="margin-top:0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight:600;margin:1.5em 0 0.5em 0;font-size:32px;line-height:1.22em">This fortnight </h2><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">While the number of omicron-related cases continues to increase, health workers are taking action for better working conditions. Their strikes and protests are a result of years of unresolved issues, which, in the middle of the pandemic, became even more pressing. </p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">In <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/01/21/nurses-in-barbados-want-to-fight-brain-drain-and-understaffing/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Barbados</a>, nurses are calling for better staffing in health institutions. Security guards at the <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/01/20/outsourced-hospital-guards-campaign-for-pay-equality-at-london-hospital/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Great Ormond Street Hospital</a> in London took industrial action to demand a level of rights equal to their in-house National Health System peers. In <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/01/14/australian-trade-unions-demand-free-covid-testing-for-all-as-cases-surge/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Australia</a>, trade unions took action to demand free testing to be included in the national pandemic response.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">Accessibility to Covid-19 products and technologies remains as pressing an issue as months ago. Big corporations continue to do everything in their power to stop mechanisms that would curb their profit, and make vaccines, tests, and <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/01/15/make-who-recommended-new-covid-19-drugs-accessible-affordable-demands-msf/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">drugs</a> more accessible.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">The same corporations enjoy an unusual amount of power in international fora like the UN and the WHO, where a framework of multi-stakeholderism has prevailed over the original multilateral approach. In a new report by the <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/01/21/corporate-takeover-of-multilateralism-deals-more-blows-to-right-to-health/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">People’s Working Group on Multistakeholderism</a>, a group of progressive organizations looks into how the corporate capture of multilateralism is impacting human rights.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">A particularly precarious situation is found in <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/01/21/health-crises-in-fragile-states-need-urgent-attention/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">conflict-ridden countries</a>, where an approach based on aid and humanitarian response forced by rich countries is undermining the possibility of building stronger local health systems.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">In a new <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/01/21/are-covid-19-cases-plateauing-in-major-indian-cities/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">video interview</a>, Dr Satyajit Rath looks into the Corbevax vaccine, its potential for enabling more people to get vaccinated, and the current Covid-19 situation in India.</p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><i>Data Speaks</i> compares inequities in income, wealth, and contributions to carbon emissions, as two reports on inequality by the <a href="https://wir2022.wid.world/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">World Inequality Lab</a> and <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/01/17/rising-inequality-a-form-of-economic-violence-by-governments-says-oxfam-report/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Oxfam</a> remind us of the growing gap between the world’s richest and poorest.</p><hr style="display:block;width:100%;margin:3em 0;padding:0;height:1px;border:0;border-top:1px solid #e5eff5"><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><b style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/01/21/health-crises-in-fragile-states-need-urgent-attention/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Health crises in fragile states need urgent attention</a></b></p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">While the world remains focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, a pandemic of conflict continues to undermine the health of billions of people around the globe</p><div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/size/w1600/2022/01/Coxs_Bazar-Bangladesh-2.jpg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="338"></div><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><b style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/01/21/corporate-takeover-of-multilateralism-deals-more-blows-to-right-to-health/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Corporate takeover of multilateralism deals more blows to right to health</a></b></p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">The People’s Working Group on Multistakeholderism published new report on corporate takeover of multilateral institutions, reducing people’s chances of safeguarding essential human rights</p><div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/2022/01/World-Economic-Forum-multistakeholderism.jpeg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="337"></div><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><b style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/01/21/nurses-in-barbados-want-to-fight-brain-drain-and-understaffing/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Nurses in Barbados want to fight brain drain and understaffing</a></b></p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">The island has been forced to rely on foreign recruitment for nursing jobs, as eroding working conditions drive many abroad to richer countries</p><div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/2022/01/Barbados_Protest_BarbadosToday-2.jpg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="338"></div><hr style="display:block;width:100%;margin:3em 0;padding:0;height:1px;border:0;border-top:1px solid #e5eff5"><h2 id="m_5327740599549276659short-reads" style="margin-top:0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight:600;margin:1.5em 0 0.5em 0;font-size:32px;line-height:1.22em">Short reads</h2><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><b style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/01/20/outsourced-hospital-guards-campaign-for-pay-equality-at-london-hospital/" style="color:#ff1a75;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Outsourced hospital guards campaign for pay equality at London hospital</a></b></p><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em">Outsourced security guards at the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London have been demanding rights, pay and other benefits on par with the in-house National Health Service (NHS) workers</p><div style="margin:0 0 1.5em;padding:0"><img src="https://peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io/content/images/2022/01/19-01-GOSH-Security-protest-London.jpg" alt="" style="border:none;max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:auto;height:auto" width="600" height="338"></div><p style="margin:0 0 1.5em 0;line-height:1.6em"><b style="font-weight:700"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/01/14/australian-trade-unions-demand-free-covid-testing-for-all-as-cases-surge/" 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