Ethiopia urged to consider medical staff’s strike demands and release detained professionals

Ethiopia urged to consider medical staff’s strike demands and release detained professionals

Amnesty International on Friday called upon Ethiopian authorities to negotiate with striking medical professionals and release those detained for peaceful protests, urging the country to protect the right to access healthcare. The rights group condemned the detention of healthcare professionals at the Addis Ababa Police Commission headquarters for demanding adequate pay and conducive working conditions as “shameful and deeply troubling.” Amnesty…

Govt turns on doctors: promised rights, delivers threats

Sunday Standard Govt turns on doctors: promised rights, delivers threats Botswana’s public health crisis has taken a dramatic turn as government ditches its conciliatory stance and allegedly adopts coercive tactics to suppress a growing doctors’ protest, raising alarms over the state of public healthcare and civil liberties..ihc-locker-wrap{}There's more to this story But to keep reading, we need you to subscribe. Investigative journalism is an …

Amnesty Urges Ethiopia to Free Detained Health Workers

Amnesty International has called on the Ethiopian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release healthcare workers detained for taking part in a nationwide strike, which police claim is jeopardising patient safety. Medical professionals across Ethiopia began striking on May 12 in protest over poor pay and working conditions. Amnesty International noted that even highly trained specialists earn as little as $80 (£63) a day in the East Af…