Sunday 28th April is International Workers Memorial Day, #IWMD this morning #ANMF Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation #union members attended the Victorian Trades Hall Council ceremony to lay wreaths in honour of the #healthcareworkers killed in #Palestine.
I just can't understand how these people manage to stay strong.
120 days of death, destruction and sorrow. The emergency workers are the ones seeing and feeling the worse of the conflict.
I can personally relate to this picture. And the horrors have haunted me for decades. But those were nothing compared to what these guys have been witnessing daily.
The survey found Canadians are feeling the impact, as 70 per cent of respondents say they worry they won't be able to get good quality #MedicalCare if they or a family member need it.”
Ontario’s Hospital Labour Force Is At A Breaking Point
A hospital union recently presented truly staggering findings from a poll of its burnt out workforce.
by Adam D. K. King via The Maple
One worker stated, “COVID is rampant. Keep your masks on. It’s ramping up. Biden thinks it’s nonexistent, management thinks it’s nonexistent, too. I don’t think we are testing everyone. We are testing if they are a suspected case, but we don’t always know.”
Many of the #HospitalWorkers taking part carried 189 placards bearing names of a #healthcare#worker#killed in Gaza. Organisers said that in the time it took for the names to be printed, several more would have died.
Palestinians in #Gaza expressed disbelief at the infiltration into #Israel. "It is like a dream. I still can't believe it," said one Gaza shopkeeper.
The attack came a day after Israel marked the 50th anniversary of the 1973 war that brought the country to the verge of catastrophic defeat in a surprise attack by #Syria and #Egypt. #YomKippurWar
The International Committee of the #RedCross (#ICRC) has called on all parties involved in the conflict to “respect their legal obligations under international humanitarian law” and to ensure that #civilians and #HealthcareWorkers are protected. #Gaza#Israel
Dear fellow #healthcareworkers#nurses#doctors and everyone in #emergencymedicine , if you are gonna subscribe to the “I can’t get COVID if I never test myself”, the least you can do is wear an N-95 at work when you’re sick. It is unethical, selfish, dangerous, and frankly negligent to come to work sick and not mask up with a true respirator. To quote from a particularly garbage action flick of yesteryear — don’t be a dick, dick.
Apparently my dentist died recently. Just keeled over and kicked the bucket while on his morning jog. This is what nobody is acknowledging about #COVID and #LongCOVID vascular and neural damage.
You will probably be fine if you're vaccinated and it will feel like a cold or maybe not even like anything, and then you go to work and spread it, then weeks or even months later when you are trying to go #BackToNormal and do some light exercise you just die.
#HealthcareWorkers need to recognize COVID as a #WorkersRights and safety issue. They are some of the most at risk people for the effects of long COVID especially because HCWs in the USA have a culture of emphasizing exercise and also sleep deprivation. I'm no immunologist but that seems like a risk factor to me.
I got a firsthand look at how understaffed our hospitals and nursing homes are today. My boyfriend's mom is in rehab, post hip surgery. He and I went to buy some hair scrunchies and elastics for her. When we arrived to see her and give her stuff, she said she had the same hair elastic in her hair for the past 3 weeks. I don't know why someone didn't take it out when she was admitted or tried to wash her hair other than lack of staff. Her hair was so matted. My boyfriend and I spent about an hour combing her hair out with a detangler and detangling comb. We had cut some of her hair off, but thankfully not too much. I braided her hair in the hopes it wouldn't get so bad before her discharge date. The nurses don't need to comb her hair or cut it, but it's sad that they are so overworked that they can't even notice things like that.