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Health privatisation is wrecking Ukraine's ability to fight Covid-19
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko talks to Ukrainian Communist Party leader PETRO SYMONENKO about the destruction of the country’s healthcare system through ‘the guillotine of medical reform’ and what this means for the people amid the Covid-19 pandemic
Ukrainian Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
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Labour councillor PAUL DONOVAN wonders why the right-wing party gets so much more media attention than it seems to merit
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
UKRAINIAN doctors have slammed “war” conditions in its hospitals as they struggle to cope with the coronavirus outbreak.
Britain’s NHS is struggling due to years of cuts — resulting in chronic staffing shortages — and the impact of Andrew Lansley’s privatising 2012 Health and Social Care Act on healthcare supplies. But in Ukraine, crippling healthcare “reform” is taking place even as the pandemic rages.
The marketising reforms are resulting in mass hospital closures, as the government passes responsibility for paying utility bills to individual hospitals rather than covering them.
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