Tag: Health and medicine
Strike of nursing staff in France: “The solution is not only financial”
Guest France The public hospital is doing very badly in France. Angry and tired, the caregivers are on strike to denounce the working conditions and the lack of staff, which…
new mobilization of health personnel as summer approaches
Rallies and strikes are planned in at least fifty cities at the call of nine unions and collectives including the CGT and the Amuf, the association of emergency doctors in…
the Polish opposition denounces the arrival of a “pregnancy register”
In Poland, the opposition denounces the forthcoming entry into force of what is dubbed “the pregnancy register”. The Minister of Health has given the green light for doctors to register…
Hospital system in France: “We are coming to the end of a cycle”, warns Pr. Frédéric Adnet
Guest France By : Clementine Pawlotsky Overcrowded hospitals, growing medical deserts, increasingly difficult working conditions. The French hospital system is in bad shape. A problem that President Emmanuel Macron has…
Emmanuel Macron wants to consult before acting
Emmanuel Macron went to Cherbourg hospital in Normandy on Tuesday to meet his staff. Faced with the congestion of emergency services, or even their partial closure, the French president wants…
an MSF employee killed by a FACA member
An employee of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) died last Saturday after being shot three times by a member of Faca, the Central African Armed Forces, in the prefecture of Ouham,…
Education, health: vocation crisis?
Emmanuel Macron devotes this Tuesday the first field trip of his second term to access to emergency care. The French President must meet in Cherbourg (north-west) many health actors. He…
In Senegal, the “Global Mercy”, the largest civilian hospital ship in the world, inaugurated in Dakar
It was inaugurated on Monday May 30 by Senegalese President Macky Sall and his counterparts from Guinea-Bissau and the Comoros. The boat of the Christian NGO Mercy Ships will provide…
a marathon of actions to raise awareness on the issue of menstrual periods
On the occasion of World Menstrual Hygiene Day on Saturday 28 May, several West African feminist associations organized this weekend a marathon of actions, initiatives and popularization, which they named…
inform to fight received ideas
This Saturday, May 28, is World Menstrual Hygiene Day. Plan international is an NGO that works for equality between young girls and boys. According to a study conducted with OpinionWay,…