“There was a crisis of information flow between the system and the patients at home,” says Dr Davit Mrelashvili, a neurologist from Georgia, referring to the pressure on his country’s health-care system when COVID-19 took hold. “As the country’s hospitals filled up, it was hard for stay-at-home patients to get timely, expert advice, and the 911 emergency system clogged up for those who truly needed it.”
Hard-won gains in efforts to provide millions of the world’s most vulnerable children with nutritious food, through a free daily meal at school, are at risk due to the coronavirus pandemic and its fallout, a UN World Food Programme (WFP) report said on Wednesday.
In many cases, unions in Europe have helped nonunionized workers whose jobs are precarious, according to new Cornell research.
In “Dualism or Solidarity? Conditions for Union Success in Regulating Precarious Work,” published in December in the European …
In today’s world, digital skills are increasingly important. However, within the EU, little progress has been made in recent years in improving basic digital...