Health Workers

Dr Zafia Anklesaria attends to a COVID-19 patient at a hospital during the coronavirus outbreak, in Los Angeles, US on May 18, 2020. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson
Coronavirus chronicle

Vaccine rollout hits snag as US health workers balk at shots

It is happening in nursing homes and in hospitals with employees expressing what experts say are unfounded fears of side effects from vaccines that were developed at record speed

A logo is pictured on the World Health Organisation (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, November 22, 2017. Reuters/Denis Balibouse
Coronavirus chronicle

Health centre water crisis increasing virus risk: WHO

Health workers’ strike risks Covid inoculation 
Health

Health workers’ strike risks Covid inoculation 

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Health

‘Creating more community paramedics can improve grassroots healthcare’

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Health

Health assistants threaten work abstention from 26 Nov

Covid...103 docs dead, only one gets compensation
Covid-19 in Bangladesh

Covid...103 docs dead, only one gets compensation

File Photo: A person in a protective suit near St James' Park as the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Newcastle, Britain, April 15, 2020. REUTERS/Lee Smith
Coronavirus chronicle

One in 7 reported Covid-19 infections is among health workers: WHO

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Photo: PMO
Health

Health Ministry did well in dealing with pandemic: PM

The Manneken Pis statue is dressed in an outfit paying tribute to healthcare workers during the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak in Brussels, Belgium September 5, 2020. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
World+Biz

Brussels honours health workers by dressing up famous statue

A person in a protective suit near St James' Park as the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Newcastle, Britain, April 15, 2020. REUTERS/Lee Smith
Coronavirus chronicle

7,000 health workers die from Covid-19: Amnesty International

FILE PHOTO: Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong speaks to the media as he arrives at the High Court to lodge a judicial review over his disqualification from the 2019 district council elections, in Hong Kong, China August 7, 2020. REUTERS/Joyce Zhou
Coronavirus chronicle

Hong Kong health workers, activists urge boycott of mass testing

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Coronavirus chronicle

India surges past 2 million coronavirus cases, angry health workers launch a strike

File Photo: Mugda General Hospital/ Collected
Health

No more free accommodation for health workers at Mugda hospital