http://www.torun.indymedia.org/3766 IMC Torun / systemy opieki zdrowotnej (Focus) http://www.torun.indymedia.org//favicon.ico http://www.torun.indymedia.org/3766 http://www.torun.indymedia.org/3929 <p><a href="http://cia.bzzz.net/poland_s_health_care_workers_strike_new_challenges_and_old_problems"><img src="/content/guest/3754.jpg" alt="solidarnosc z strajkujacymi lekarzami" style="float:left; margin-right: 20px" width="200" /></a></p> <h3>The coming week (early September 2007)</h3> <p>Toruń nurses will picket the Sejm (national parliament in Warsaw) while the members of Parliament are working on a bill guaranteeing them a rise, stating, “We’re still a long way from lifting the strike”.</p> <p>The bill about raising the salaries of health workers is a result of the protests carried out by nurses from around Poland in June. They formed what was called a “white town” around the Prime Minister’s Office in Warsaw for four weeks, made of a few dozen tents. Among them were nurses from Toruń hospitals.</p> <p>The government initially rejected the raise, but in the end gave in and next week a bill which guarantees higher salaries for nurses, doctors and other medical workers will go through its first reading in t…</p> en 2007-09-04T00:20:40+00:00 http://www.torun.indymedia.org/3750 <p><a href="/3750#id3751"><img src="/content/guest/3751.jpg" alt="solidarity with striking doctors" style="float:left; margin-right: 20px" width="200" /></a></p> <p>“We support the doctors’ strike” – “No more exploitation”</p> <p>“The nurses’ and midwives’ trade union supports the protest” – ,,We’re with you”</p> <p>– Regional Children’s Hospital, Torun, 22 August 2007</p> <p>In-depth analysis from June 2007:</p> <h2>Poland’s Health Care Workers’ Strike: new challenges and old problems</h2> <p><a href="http://cia.bzzz.net/poland_s_health_care_workers_strike_new_challenges_and_old_problems">Poland’s Health Care Workers’ Strike: new challenges and old problems</a></p> <h4>The Doctor’s Strike and the Nurses’ Occupation</h4> <p>_Poland is entering the sixth week [June 2007] of a very serious doctors’ strike. Thousands of doctors around the country have been protesting the state of the health care system and one of its main problems: low wages for health care professionals and long working hours, usually compounded by the fact that most people work e…</p> en 2007-08-28T21:09:49+00:00