Health Budget
Under COVID-19 stress, healthcare crumbles in neoliberal Ecuador
In the city of Guayaquil in Guayas, dead bodies, most likely victims of the pandemic, are piling up on streets as funeral services fail to collect them on time, forcing families to abandon them.
Dead bodies on the streets of Ecuador expose failure of the government amid pandemic
Lenín Moreno’s neoliberal policies, with cuts to health and prioritization of foreign debt, have caused a collapse in the healthcare system
Latvia’s healthcare workers set to strike demanding higher government spending
While a law passed by parliament in December 2017 calls for health sector spending to the tune of 4% of the GDP, the government’s latest budgetary proposals have allocated only 3.3%
- US elected officials and labor leaders join international call to take Cuba off US’s State Sponsors of Terrorism list
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