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This website focuses on issues regarding social protection in Asia and the activities done by the Network on Social Protection Rights (INSP!R) and its members. It is under the editorial oversight from the Asia Steering Committee, composed out of members from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Cambodia, Indonesia and Philippines. It is meant to foster dialogue and share experiences.
The articles describe challenges and achievements to improve the right to social protection to workers in the region, with a specific focus to gender, youth and informal workers.

20 June 2016

Help save Philippino Hospital

11 critical days are left to save Fabella Hospital before the new President Duterte take over the administration from leaving President Aquino.



WSM partner Alliance of Health Workers (AHW), health workers, patients and the community continue its mobilisation. Inside the world's busiest maternity ward where 100 babies are born every day:

  • 300 mothers arrive at the Dr Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital each day;
  • The hospital serves a Manila slum named Tondo, built on a rubbish dump;
  • Mothers share a delivery room with at least five other birthing women;
  • Head midwife Anna Prebus has delivered around 200,000 babies;
  • New babies and their mothers sleep five or more to a bed;
  • Hospital is the subject of new BBC documentary World's Busiest Maternity Ward

Read more here at the Daily Mail or watch this video.

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