Turkey: Health workers strike – Demands better working conditions

Five Turkish unions representing more than 250.000 Health workers, doctors and other health workers went on a one-day strike on Wednesday to protest low wages and adverse working conditions. amid the collapse of the Turkish pound.

Hundreds sanitary, including doctors, nurses, medical staff and laboratory assistants, gathered at the Constantinople, the largest city in Turkey, asking for resignation of the government, reports Reuters.

As relayed by ΑΠΕ ΜΠΕ, health professionals from all over 81 provinces of the country took part in the strike, according to the Turkish Medical Association (TTB), the largest union in the industry.

TTB claims that the health workers are in despair due to government management of the coronavirus pandemic, lack of transparency in data on COVID-19 infections and deaths, and measures to protect health personnel.

At the same time, many health professionals wanted to leave the country because of low wages, long working hours and the risk of violence, the union said: More than 100,000 doctors have been victims of physical and verbal violence in the past 11 years and at least 10 have been killed by patients, the union said.

“We want to live and help others live”, “Free and equal health care for all” and “We can not breathe”, were, after all, some of the slogans shouted by protesters in Istanbul.

It is pointed out that Turkey records approximately 20,000 new infections COVID-19 and 180 deaths daily, according to Health Minister Fahrettin Koca, who also said on Saturday that six infections had been reported. Omicron mutation.

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