Öz Sağlık İşçileri Sendikası
Mr. Devlet Sert, Vice-President of the HAK-İŞ Trade Union Confederation and President of the Öz Sağlık-İş Health and Social Services Workers’ Union, participated in an occupational health and safety workshop in Ulaanbaatar, capital city of Mongolia.
Mr. Devlet Sert, our Union President, took part in the Occupational Health and Safety Workshop organised by the Central Asian Council of Health Trade Unions and hosted by the Mongolian Health Workers’ Union (MHWU), with participants from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Mongolia and Türkiye.
Mr. Fadlı Erdem, General Secretary, and Mr. Uğur Müftüoğlu, International Relations Coordinator of our Union accompanied Mr. Devlet Sert during the said OHS workshop whose moderator was Farhodjon Hanapiyaev, President of the Uzbekistan Healthcare Workers’ Union and General Secretary of the Council of Central Asian Countries Healthcare Workers’ Unions, which brough together representatives from various labour and non-governmental organisations of different countries.
The workshop addressed the occupational health and safety risks faced by healthcare workers in their working lives, measures to protect workers’ rights, health and safety policies, and cooperation opportunities among the participated countries.
President Sert took the floor to inform the participants about union activities being carried out in the field of occupational health and safety (OHS) in Türkiye as well as on specific measures oriented to improving safe working conditions of health and social services workers.
Emphasizing that working in safe and healthy conditions is a fundamental right to workers, President Sert drew attention to the importance of increasing exchange of information and experience among regional countries and developing joint efforts to protect health and social services workers.
The workshop also included discussions on strengthening regional cooperation to protect the rights of health and social services workers and improve their working conditions.
