Protest of thousands of toilets in Brussels

The desperate cries of health personnel Belgian resonate in the streets of Brussels. Between 18,000 and 22,500 people, according to different sources, manifested this Tuesday in the country’s capital to denounce the evils that affect social and welfare services: low wages, terrible working conditions and a total feeling of abandonment.

“The message is that we want more nurses, and that the nursing profession has to be more attractive so that there are more young people who choose this profession. Because it is very difficult to have a stable family life and practice this profession,” says nurse Tania Groderes .

As has happened in other European countries, the coronavirus crisis worsened the working conditions of health personnel, causing numerous cases of abandonment of the profession and aggravating the vocational deficit.

In Belgium, the unions denounce that the authorities have not foreseen budgetary measures to support the sector.

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