Public health workers and COVID-19: Overworked and struggling to meet the demands

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A busy healthcare center where overworked public health workers struggle to meet the demands of COVID-19

Labour Union fights for change for Japanese Public Health Care Workers Sachie Akasugi (not her real name) is beyond exhausted. A worker at a public health center in Osaka, Akasugi and her colleagues are part of Japan’s first line of defense against COVID-19. With overtime hours in excess of 150 hours a month, the pandemic…

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日比野敏陽(ひびの としあき)
関心を持って取材している分野は環境問題、気候変動、労働問題、原発とエネルギー、メディア産業、地域の伝統文化や医療など。本来は京都と関西を拠点にしているが、現在は東京が拠点。新聞社勤務だが、他媒体にも執筆中。

Chie Matsumoto is a journalist and an adjunct media instructor in the Faculty of Law at Hosei University. She was previously one of the editors at Rodo Joho (Labor Notes) and a Tokyo correspondent at German Press Agency, dpa, as well as a reporter for the International Herald Tribune/The Asahi Shimbun. Matsumoto also worked as a research assistant in the Media and Journalism Studies at Tokyo University. Her works appear in books, Gender Hyogen Gaido Bukku (Gender Expression Guidebook) (Shogakukan Publishing, 2022) and Masukomi・Sekuhara Hakusho (State of Sexual Harassment in Media) (Bungei Shunju Publishing, 2020) among others, and in translations of The Purpose of Power (co-translator, Akashi Publishing, 2020) and others.

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