The massacre of Red Crescent and civil defence aid workers has elicited little coverage and no condemnation by major powers — this is the age of lawlessness, warns JOE GILL
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MANY staff employed in the health and social care sector are plugging funding gaps from their own pockets.
Of course, this problem is not restricted to the NHS, it has been happening across public services for some time. Teachers, for example, will have recently been on their annual shopping trips to equip their classrooms for the new school year, purchasing such essentials as books, stationery and other vital learning resources.
This has almost become an accepted normality for the teaching profession. It should not be.
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