Nursing
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How not to be deported: India’s nurses seeking work abroad learn how to migrate safely
Kerala is providing lessons on how not to be scammed by employment agencies as US and UK step up immigration r…
- Afghanistan, Global development, Health, Life and style, Maternal health, Maternal mortality, Midwifery, Nursing, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women's health, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Taliban move to ban women training as nurses and midwives ‘an outrageous act of ignorance’
Afghan students and activists condemn halt to medical courses amid warnings of women dying from lack of health…
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Challenges of recruiting nurses from Nepal | Letters
Radha Adhikari highlights the difficulties for healthcare workers in Nepal and the UK, both of which have shor…
- Global development, Health, Nursing, Pakistan, Polio, South and Central Asia, Vaccines and immunisation, World news
‘It’s scary work, but I’m determined. We will make Pakistan polio-free’
As the virus returns, one frontline worker tells of her daily trials and triumphs in the fight to eradicate it…
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Raging Delta variant takes its toll as Philippines runs out of nurses
Bad pay and conditions at home and demand for Filipino nursing skills overseas have left the country with a so…
- Africa, Americas, Coronavirus, Doctors, Europe, Global health, Health, Human rights, India, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Italy, Middle East and North Africa, Nicaragua, Nursing, Pakistan, South and Central Asia, Sudan, UK news, United Nations, World news
Spat at, abused, attacked: healthcare staff face rising violence during Covid
Data shows increased danger for those on the frontline in the pandemic, with misinformation, scarce vaccines a…
- Asia Pacific, Gender pay gap, Inequality, International Women's Day, New Zealand, Nursing, Society, Teaching, Women
In New Zealand, we are starting to value women’s work fairly. It’s time for the world to follow
On International Women’s Day, let’s commit to properly compensating women for the unpaid and underpaid work th…
- Children, Global development, Health, Hospitals, Myanmar, NHS, Nursing, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
Seeing a boy die in Myanmar made me so thankful to work as a nurse in the NHS
I still wonder whether he would have survived with access to treatments we would have used in the UKThe boy’s …