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Healthcare workers in Turkey: We cannot breathe

Healthcare workers in Turkey: We cannot breathe

Health and Social Service Laborers Union (SES) Chair Selma Atabey has raised concerns that the Law on Violence in Healthcare, which was enacted “for show”, is not enforced even in its current state, underlining that violence is increasing by day.

21 January 2022

‘We don’t say it as a slogan, we have really burned out'

COVID-19 IN TURKEY

‘We don’t say it as a slogan, we have really burned out'

“We don’t say it as a slogan, we have really burned out. Our two fellow health workers committed suicide,” says SES Union Co-Chair Atabey about the decision of two hospitals to call COVID-infected personnel back to work without being tested.

13 November 2020 Ruken Tuncel