The employees of the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) program, an integrated health program, held a protest raising their issues of salary hike and firing without notice at the capital city of Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK).
Terming the quality of education of Indian nurses as "very high", visiting Danish Minister of Higher Education and Science Christina Egelund said the recruitment of Indian health workers in Denmark could be a "genuine mutual benefit" from a possible agreement between the two countries.
Officials of Uttarakhand Asha Health Workers Union, Anganwadi Workers, Sevika Employees Union and Uttarakhand Bhojan Mata Kamgar Union met state Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Sunday at the camp office located at the Chief Minister's residence.
Accusing Israel of prolonging the health and rescue mission in Gaza by detaining health workers and attacking aid trucks, World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyes informed that one patient sustaining grave injuries died due to delay in getting treatment.
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], December 5: In the face of growing health challenges posed by climate change including rising heat-related illnesses, vector-borne and waterborne diseases and mental health issues, Swasti, The Health Catalyst, and the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Edu
Following the attack on Al-Awda Hospital in Gaza, where three doctors and a patient companion were killed, the World Health Organisation expressed solidarity with the health workers of the hospital, calling for an 'urgent ceasefire'.
Following multiple explosions during a prayer meeting of Jehovah's Witnesses in Kalamassery, Kerala Health Minister Veena George on Sunday directed all hospitals to alert health workers, who are on leave, to return immediately.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said that WHO has lost touch with its staff, health facilities, health workers, and the rest of its humanitarian partners on the ground in Gaza.
Working as health workers under the Maternal Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) Programme these women are surviving on merely a monthly remuneration of 8,000 Pakistani Rupees.
Health Minister Veena George while addressing a press conference on Wednesday, said, "So far, three samples have tested Nipah positive. We have started contact tracing. Of 706 contacts, 77 are in the high-risk category, 153 health workers are in the low-risk category," Veena George said.