The NIPIP nurses’ and midwives’ union, along with four other organisations representing health professionals, has written to the government calling for guarantees that it will cover life insurance costs of health workers who fall ill or die as a result of contracting COVID-19. The organisations say that the commitment should be the same as that already made to some hospital and health sector employees.
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