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Coronavirus: medics turn backs on Belgium's prime minister in silent protest

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Sunday, 17 May, 2020, 23:05
Coronavirus: medics turn backs on Belgium's prime minister in silent protest

Belgium’s prime minister, Sophie Wilmès, was was met with a silent protest by staff at a hospital in Brussels on Saturday. Doctors and nurses of Saint-Pierre hospital turned their backs as Wilmès arrived in a car. The workers staged the protest to call for increased acknowledgement of their efforts and against a decree to recruit unqualified staff to carry out nursing activities, according to local media