Privatization of healthcare
Health systems in Europe are running on overtime

Chronic staffing shortages are pushing European health systems into overtime, harming both worker well-being and quality of care

Delhi’s healthcare crisis: a wake-up call ahead of elections

Ahead of Delhi Assembly elections on February 5, JSA Delhi warns about persisting health inequities and calls for meaningful health policies

Health workers in Turkey resist profit-driven primary care regulation

Primary health care workers in Turkey are fighting against new regulations that prioritize profit over essential care, continuing their struggle to protect the universal character of healthcare

Campaigners in the UK say get Palantir out of the NHS

Health workers and activists ramp up their campaign to oppose surveillance company Palantir’s role in managing NHS data

Can Serbia “cure” its public pharmacies?

Pharmacy services in Serbia have become entirely profit-driven, with the needs of the population pushed aside

Foreign recruitment of nurses Germany, Brazil On Nurses Day, struggles continue for better conditions amid unfulfilled promises

Ahead of another International Nurses Day on May 12, health workers continue to struggle for fair working conditions and safe staffing levels in the sector

Kenyan health workers prepare for a new round of industrial action

The workers’ demands include stable working conditions and aligning incomes with living expenses. They are mobilizing at a time when the government is preparing to implement a highly unpopular round of healthcare reform

Trade union report illustrates mental health impacts of working in public healthcare

The Public Services International (PSI) recently launched a new report examining the mental health of health workers in Liberia, Brazil, Sweden, Australia, and Canada

Kenyan health workers protest repression, government failure to meet demands

Kenyan health workers’ union, KMPDU, is preparing for new round of actions in response to police brutality against trade union officials during a demonstration

Health care in Kenya How commercialization and privatization deplete people’s health in Kenya’s urban settlements

Sharon Joan, a community member from the Kibera urban settlement, talks about the intersections of commercialization and environmental factors on the health of people living in urban settlements in Kenya

Doctors Protest - UK Junior doctors in the UK protest government disregard and demand pay rise

Over the last two decades, the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK has been substantially weakened due to underfunding and understaffing. A good share of its staff, including young doctors, are now on the verge of leaving the NHS due to overwork and lack of decent wages

Long-term care Investors in long-term care profit as aged and disabled residents and workers bear brunt of COVID-19

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, long-term care facilities were hit particularly hard as both residents and workers suffered high infection and mortality rates. A number of reports indicate that such an outcome is linked to widespread privatization