Privatised health services worsen pandemic: Analysis


SYDNEY/KUALA LUMPUR (IPS): Decades of public health cuts have quietly taken a huge human toll, now even more pronounced with the pandemic. Austerity programmes, by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, have forced countries to cut public spending, including health provisioning.

‘Government is the problem’

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