Exhausted by COVID-19 fight, Portuguese nurses want pay not applause
LISBON -- At midnight nurse Ines Lopes and her colleagues are about to start the night shift taking care of patients in a COVID-19 intensive care unit in the heart of Lisbon. Nursing is a job they love but it barely pays the bills. Politicians, celebrities and people across Portugal have spent much of the coronavirus pandemic praising frontline health workers, sometimes emerging from their homes to clap and cheer on the medics. But that has fueled frustration among health professionals struggling to make ends meet due to low salaries and lack of opportunities to move up the career ladd...
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