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International Nurse News Round-Up

Australia

Nurse-Patient Ratios on Conference Agenda

New South Wales Nurses and Midwives TV commercial: Patient Before Profits

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Brazil

Enfermeiros, técnicos e auxiliares de enfermagem protestam em Itanhaém/Nurses, technicians and nursing assistants protest in Itanagar

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Canada

Provinces look for more drug savings, give lukewarm support to EU deal that will undercut them

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Peru

Enfermeras harán vigilia para pedir al gobierno que atienda sus demandas/Nurses will hold vigil to ask the government to address their demands

Enfermeras en Juliaca amenazan con abandonar hospitales /Nurses in Juliaca threaten to leave hospitals

Enfermeras protestan frente al Ministerio de Salud/Nurses Protest Outside Ministry of Health

Enfermeras no llegaron a acuerdo con el Minsa y continuarán en huelga

(Nurses did not reach agreement with the Ministry of Health and continue on strike)

Más de mil enfermeras del Minsa marchan hacia el Congreso de la República /More than a thousand MINSA nurses march to the Congress

Enfermeras en huelga en Perú marchan reclamando incremento de sueldos/Nurses on strike in Peru march demanding an increase in wages

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Philippines

Health Workers to DOH: You will find the poor in public hospitals, not at the ivory tower of profit-driven health care

Estrada denies plan to shut down 6 Manila hospitals

Estrada’s Deadly Gamble

Erap mulls reduction of Manila hospitals, hike property taxes

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UK

Poll: Majority of nurses say ward patient to RN ratios are unsafe

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