Belgian hospital workers turn their back on PM

Belgian hospital workers turn their backs at the arrival of the Belgian Prime Minister

Their protest focused on the savings, underpaid and understaffed care sector. Staff are also angry about how the government has dealt with the corona crisis and that it made it legally possible during the corona crisis to claim care personnel, says the socialist trade union ACOD on Facebook.

Wilmès said afterwards to the RTBF that she had come to bring a "message of reconciliation". "Everyone is aware of the plight of hospital staff. They were there before the crisis and the difficulties have increased as a result. I can't imagine that the post-crisis period is reduced to what it was before. It will be necessary to structurally revalue the nursing profession. That's a certainty."

Belgium’s first female prime minister is Jewish

Sophie Wilmes’ mother is Ashkenazi Jewish and lost several relatives in the Holocaust, though reports claim 'only recently' did Judaism became an important factor in her life.