Ahead of the G20 in Brisbane, leading officers from Public
Services International (PSI) and the
National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) will be touring Australia next week to
talk about the Ebola crisis and to warn about the failures of inadequate health
systems.Abdul Rafiu Alani Adeniji, President of NANNM, will be in
Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane, with Daniel Bertossa, Director of Policy at
PSI, who will be urging the G20 to implement promised measures to make large
multinational corporations pay their fair share of taxes.
PSI will also release the international research from the Greenwich University Faculty of Business showing that universal public sector health is more efficient and effective. The research will be launched at the forum “When profits come first – The true impacts of health privatisation” at the Queensland Nurses’ Union offices.Ebola has taken a terrible toll on health workers of West Africa. By the middle end of October, 269 health care workers have died from the disease in countries where health care workers are already in tragically short supply, and at least a further 250 health care workers are known to be already ill with the disease.
The shocking reality is that the Ebola crisis is a crisis of the health system and the underfunding of public healthcare.PSI affiliates began reporting cases of health workers dying after treating patients with EVD as early as April 2014 and tried to raise these issues (among others) at the West African Health Ministers’ Summit in Monrovia that same month.Abdul Adeniji and Daniel Bertossa will be available for interviews and comments in:
PSI is the global union federation representing 20 million public sector workers in over 150 countries.For more information see our website: http://www.world-psi.org/ebola
PSI will also release the international research from the Greenwich University Faculty of Business showing that universal public sector health is more efficient and effective. The research will be launched at the forum “When profits come first – The true impacts of health privatisation” at the Queensland Nurses’ Union offices.Ebola has taken a terrible toll on health workers of West Africa. By the middle end of October, 269 health care workers have died from the disease in countries where health care workers are already in tragically short supply, and at least a further 250 health care workers are known to be already ill with the disease.
The shocking reality is that the Ebola crisis is a crisis of the health system and the underfunding of public healthcare.PSI affiliates began reporting cases of health workers dying after treating patients with EVD as early as April 2014 and tried to raise these issues (among others) at the West African Health Ministers’ Summit in Monrovia that same month.Abdul Adeniji and Daniel Bertossa will be available for interviews and comments in:
- Melbourne on Tuesday, 11 November
- Adelaide on Wednesday, 12 November
- Brisbane on Thursday, 13 November
- Abdul Adeniji’s and Daniel Bertossa’s visit
- Release of Greenwich University research
PSI is the global union federation representing 20 million public sector workers in over 150 countries.For more information see our website: http://www.world-psi.org/ebola
