Parliament Passes Bill to Protect Health Workers from Violence
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The parliament yesterday (April 15) passed a bill to protect health workers from violence amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The law will strengthen penalties for violence towards healthcare workers.
Under the law, penalties for threatening, insulting, injuring, or hindering healthcare workers from doing their duties are increased by a half.
In these crimes, the provisions of the postponement of the prison sentence according to the Turkish Penal Code and the deferment of the announcement according to the Criminal Procedure Code will not be applied.
In the health agency where the violence takes place, if there are other healthcare personnel who can provide services to the perpetrators or their relatives, the service will be provided by that personnel.
Turkey has so far reported 69,392 Covid-19 cases, and the death toll stands at 1,518. (EKN/VK)
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STUDY ON VIOLENCE IN HEALTHCARE
‘67 percent of healthcare workers subjected to violence at least for once’
VIOLENCE AGAINST HEALTH WORKER
‘The insults they hurled were apparently just “rude words”’
Investigation into attempted attack on health workers
UNIVERSITY FACULTY MEMBERS ASSOCIATION
‘Recent Amendments to Law on Higher Education Threaten Academic Freedom’
Covid-19: Turkey's Death Toll Hits 1,643, Total Tests Surpass 500 Thousand
Health Laborers’ Union: Health Workers’ Right to Life Being Violated
Ankara Medical Chamber: Testing of Health Workers Stopped After Some Tested Positive
İstanbul Medical Chamber: Over 1,000 Health Workers Infected, Ministry Figures Misleading
PENNED BY HÜSEYİN ŞENGÜL
To Health Workers
TTB REPORT ON HEALTH WORKERS
‘Healthcare Providers Still Working Without Masks in Turkey’