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Charter for health workers’ safety
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- The World Health Organization released a Health Worker Safety Charter.
- It is a step towards ensuring that health workers have the safe working conditions, the training, the pay and the respect they deserve.
- As per this Charter, health workers represent less than 3% of the population in the large majority of countries and less than 2% in almost all low and middle-income countries.
- Around 14% of Covid-19 cases reported to WHO are among health workers.
- According to the Union health ministry data, Telangana (18%), Maharashtra (16%), Delhi (14%), Karnataka (13%), Puducherry (12%) and Punjab (11%) have a high covid-19 infection rate among healthcare workers in India.
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