An opinion piece from Finland highlights that insufficient language skills among healthcare workers are not a minor issue but a critical patient safety concern, shifting responsibility to already burdened staff.

Italian unions have called a national strike for private healthcare workers and care home staff, initially scheduled for April 17 and later updated to March 17, due to stalled contract renewal talks.

Karnataka's Health Minister has released a training manual designed to strengthen the capacity of healthcare workers in the state, with a particular emphasis on reducing excessive salt consumption.

Authorities in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, based in Mostar, ordered an end to the strike by healthcare workers, but unions refused to comply until their demands for higher wages are met.

Nigeria's NCDC has expressed concern over increasing Lassa Fever infections and deaths among healthcare workers across several states, including Ondo, Edo, and Bauchi.

The Serbian Ministry of Defense has launched a competition to recruit 195 healthcare professionals, including doctors, nurses, and technicians, for the Military Medical Academy (VMA) and other military hospitals.

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 27 - Italian unions on Friday called national strike of private healthcare workers and care home staff on March 17 over bogged-down talks to renew the national contract. Despite a…

A ruling in Switzerland has recognized Long Covid as an occupational disease for nurses, acknowledging the risks faced by healthcare workers.

A Lassa Fever outbreak in Nigeria has a 22% fatality rate, exposing gaps in state-level response, with 15 healthcare workers also infected.

The Polish Ministry of Health is considering postponing the planned minimum wage increase for healthcare workers, specifically psychologists, which was set to take effect on July 1, 2026, sparking controversy.

Healthcare workers from Zimbabwe, who paid thousands for jobs in Ireland that never materialized, leaving them in poverty, have won orders for a full year's wages each.

Police in Umag, Croatia, concluded an investigation into a 44-year-old Slovenian citizen suspected of assaulting healthcare workers after being found intoxicated on a road in Istria.

He called for immediate, decisive and sustained action to guarantee the safety and security of all nurses and healthcare workers in the FCT. The post Abuja nurses decry ‘one-chance’ attack on colleague, demand justice appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.