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Charter for health workers’ safety

September 23 , 2020 1434 days 735 0
  • 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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