AV 3rd October 2020

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FIRST & FOREMOST ASIAN WEEKLY IN EUROPE

inside: Indian students distressed with financial and academic burdens seek help SEE PAGE - 7 R

Let noble thoughts come to us from every side

3 - 9 OCTOBER 2020 - VOL 49 ISSUE 23

NURSES WANT TO QUIT NHS NHS facing a shortage of 40,000 nurses, as Britain races towards a second coronavirus wave

Youngsters can help grandparents adapt to technology and behavioural changes in fighting coronavirus SEE PAGE - 8

Diaspora outraged by Conservative party fringe group supporting anti-India sentiments SEE PAGE - 14

Future of selfemployed workers remains uncertain in the winter scheme SEE PAGE - 16 File photo: Nurses protesting at St James Park in August 2020

Priyanka Mehta and Shefali Saxena

On Wednesday 23rd September, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) highlighted an “emerging crisis in nursing� with concerns about record shortages in the number of nurses and low morale among them as Britain races towards a second coronavirus wave. The NHS is presently short of 40,000 nurses and

researchers are pressing for a review of the 12-hour shifts of all nurses to ensure their physical, mental and emotional wellbeing are intact. Health experts have constantly flagged up the issues of racism, pay disparity, burnout and exhaustion that most nurses and midwives face especially those from overseas countries. Continued on page 6

PM Modi calls for India's inclusion in UN's decisionmaking body SEE PAGE - 26


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