Frontline health workers need voice, alliance saysBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporterFrontline healthcare workers should be on the National Health Insurance Committee, the Taiwan Medical Alliance for Labor Justice and Patient Safety said yesterday, urging the National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA) to include them. From left, Taiwan Medical Alliance for Labor Justice and Patient Safety director Tseng Chia-lin and alliance director-general Lin Ping-hung, and Taiwan Anesthesia Union chairman Chu Ning-wei hold placards at a news conference in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Liu Hsin-de, Taipei Times“If frontline healthcare workers are not included in the National Health Insurance Committee, the sweat and blood situation of healthcare labor will not improve,” Taiwan Anesthesia Union chairman Chu Ning-wei (儲寧瑋) said. The naming of committee members is done following the National Health Insurance Act (全民健保法), but the “healthcare service providers” are all top officials of hospital associations or medical superintendents, so “management” is represented, but workers are not, Chu said. The NHIA must include at least one representative of frontline healthcare workers on the committee, Lin said.

Source: Taipei Times April 13, 2021 15:56 UTC