カテゴリー: Nursing
This week, the first students completed a three-year degree course, ready to treat displaced people and pro-democracy fighters unable to risk government-run hospitalsIt was a remarkable, but secretive, ceremony that took place earlier this week for a c…
Kerala is providing lessons on how not to be scammed by employment agencies as US and UK step up immigration raidsOn a warm February morning, Devika, 24, sits with more than 60 classmates in the city of Kochi, in Kerala, southern India, learning how to…
Afghan students and activists condemn halt to medical courses amid warnings of women dying from lack of healthcareThe Taliban’s ban on Afghan women attending nursing and midwife courses has been condemned as “an outrageous act of ignorance” by human ri…
Radha Adhikari highlights the difficulties for healthcare workers in Nepal and the UK, both of which have shortagesRe your article on recruiting nurses from Nepal by Pete Pattisson and Pramod Acharya (‘If we leave, Nepal will suffer’: embattled hospita…
As the virus returns, one frontline worker tells of her daily trials and triumphs in the fight to eradicate it for everSaima Hanif, 32, is one of Pakistan’s frontline health workers, part of a network of volunteers and low-paid women who are key in th…
Bad pay and conditions at home and demand for Filipino nursing skills overseas have left the country with a soaring death rateCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Covid Delta variant has swept across south-east Asia over rece…
Data shows increased danger for those on the frontline in the pandemic, with misinformation, scarce vaccines and fragile health systems blamed‘They stormed the ICU and beat the doctor’: health workers under attackHundreds of healthcare workers treating…
On International Women’s Day, let’s commit to properly compensating women for the unpaid and underpaid work they have always doneThe world would stop running were it not for the unpaid and underpaid work undertaken by women. It is past time for our con…
I still wonder whether he would have survived with access to treatments we would have used in the UKThe boy’s hands were very cold. He was about 13 or 14 but looked younger, with untidy dark hair. He had been bitten by a snake and was now severely unwe…