New Research Suggests Public Health Care is More
Efficient: G20 Urged to Act
Abdul Rafiu Alani Adeniji, President of the National Association
of Nigerian Nurse and Midwives (NANNM), and a former Nurse, will be in
Australia in advance of the G20 talking about the Ebola crisis in West Africa
and warning about the failures of inadequate health systems.
He will be visiting Brisbane for the G20 with Daniel
Bertossa, Director of Policy at the Geneva based Public Services International
(PSI), who will be urging the G20 to implement promised measures to make large
multinational corporations pay fair tax and releasing international research from
the Greenwich University Faculty of Business showing that universal public
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 offcies.
Ebola has taken a terrible toll on health workers of West
Africa. By the middle of October 244 health care workers had died from the
disease in countries where health care workers are already in tragic short
supply. The shocking reality is that the Ebola crisis is a crisis of public
health.
PSI affiliates began reporting cases of health workers dying
while 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 comment in:
Adelaide on Tuesday 11 November
Melbourne on Wednesday 12 November
Brisbane at 9am on Thursday 13 November at the
Queensland Nurses Union, 106 Victoria Street, West End, Brisbane.
The NANNM is the union that represents Nurses and
Midwives in Nigeria healthcare delivery for Nigerians safeguards best healthcare
delivery for Nigerians
PSI is the global union federation representing 20 million
public sector workers in over 160 countries.
Advice from PSI
