Critical to this will be leveraging health teams at the first level of care, including community health workers and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Clinics and hospitals 🏥 must also redistribute work so they can cater to COVID-19 patients while maintaining other… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
This is particularly important for women 👩🏽💼👩🏾⚕️👩🏽🦳, the majority of our health work force, who must be supporte… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
We must enhance occupational health programs to ensure safe working conditions and fair pay 💵 for health workers. T… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Over the coming months 🗓, countries must also boost their health care capacity.
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#COVID19
In the event that health workers get sick – including those who may not be caring for patients directly, like our j… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
This will require maintaining sufficient supplies of PPE 🥽 and ensuring that everyone is effectively trained in inf… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
That’s why today I ask countries 🌎 to take the necessary steps to give our health workers 👨🏽⚕️👩🏾⚕️ the protection… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Shockingly, dozens of health workers have been assaulted over the last few months as a result of the public’s mispl… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Others are being ostracized and being denied access to restaurants ☕️ or public transportation 🚎, while a few have… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
