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Fierce fighting persists in Ukraine's east as Kyiv reports non-stop assaults by Russia on a key city

Ukrainian officials reported intense combat, characterized by relentless assaults by Russian forces, as the ongoing attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka entered its fifth consecutive day on Saturday. There were more than 41,955 job postings across Canada for nurses in the first quarter of 2023, resulting in a shortage of manpower and the expansion of private agency health-care staffing firms. This trend is triggering worry that it is slowly privatizing the backbone of health services, with an urgent call for more scrutiny.

Fierce fighting persists in Ukraine's east as Kyiv reports non-stop assaults by Russia on a key city

Published : 2 years ago by The Associated Press in World

Why some worry about the rise of private agency health-care staffing firms in Canada

There were more than 41,955 job postings across Canada for nurses in the first quarter of 2023, missing manpower that is affecting hospital staffing, closing rural ERs and fuelling the expansion of companies that supply temporary nurses. The trend is triggering worry that it is slowly privatizing the backbone of health services — nursing care — with an urgent call for more scrutiny.


Topics: Ukraine, Russia, Russia-Ukraine War

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