Saskatchewan makes job affords to greater than 160 Filipino health-care staff

The Saskatchewan Well being Authority has supplied jobs to 161 Filipino health-care staff underneath the provincial authorities’s Well being Human Assets Motion Plan.

The federal government launched the motion plan in hopes of including greater than 1,000 workers to its health-care system. That may embrace tons of of staff who’re to be recruited over the subsequent two years from overseas.

In a media launch Monday, the federal government mentioned affords have been made to 138 registered nurses, 21 persevering with care assistants and two medical lab assistants from the Philippines. The federal government famous one persevering with care assistant from

Continue Reading

Maternal mortality rises by almost 20% in UK, report finds | Girls’s well being

The variety of ladies dying in being pregnant or shortly after giving delivery within the UK has risen sharply, with proof of widening well being inequalities, a serious report has been discovered.

The report, MBRRACE Saving Lives, Bettering Moms’ Care, discovered that 229 ladies died throughout being pregnant or as much as six weeks after in 2018-20, a 19% improve in earlier years as soon as Covid deaths had been excluded. It additionally particulars the care of 289 ladies who had died as much as a 12 months after being pregnant in the identical interval.

Girls residing in essentially the

Continue Reading