Open letter to the Minister of Health: End discrimination!

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İSTANBUL - DİSK Chair Arzu Çerkezoğlu who issued an open letter to Health Minister Fahrettin Koca on the grounds that there was a distinction between health workers in additional payments, requested that the discriminatory practices be terminated.
 
Arzu Çerkezoğlu, the President of the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions (DISK), wrote an open letter to Health Minister Fahrettin Koca on the grounds that there was a distinction between health workers who were fighting against the coronavirus.
 
Stating that the health care workers are fighting coronavirus risking their own lives, said the public workers and contracted personnel are shoulder to shoulder in the fight against the virus.
 
Çerkezoğlu critisizing that the additional payment only includes civil servants and contracted personnel,  Çerkezoğlu emphasized that this attitude is also against the principle of equality of the Constitution.
 
YOU CAN'T IGNORE THE WORKERS
 
Stating that the security workers and medical secretaries in the hospital should also benefit from this allowance, Çerkezoğlu said, “The sacrifices of the hospital workers cleaning the ER, the polyclinics that people are being examined in and the patient rooms can not be ignored. The nurses involved in the treatment of patients, the labourers who prepare the meals, the radiology technicians, laboratory staff and caregivers who are involved in the treatment of patients with the physicians can not be ignored."
 
Çerkezoğlu who demanded that the healthcare workers must be treated in accordance with the principle of equality, said: "There is no excuse for the current Revolving Fund regulations to not include health workers from all professions employed in worker status. In a system where decrees can be issued on almost any subject, this justified demand of health workers can be easily met with a simple arrangement. As long as it is intended to give the rights of health workers."
 
 

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