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“Be like Nina”: how a Ukrainian nurse organised a protest movement

Low wages, stressful conditions and little hope in the future of Ukraine’s healthcare system – this is what Nina Kozlovska, a nurse at a Kyiv regional hospital, is campaigning against.

“Be like Nina”: how a Ukrainian nurse organised a protest movement
Nina Kozlovska is a senior nurse from the town of Boyarka outside Kyiv | Image: Sergey Movchan / Politychna krytyka
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It took only 24 hours for Nina Kozlovska’s post to go viral.

“One night I came home from work, opened Facebook and wrote everything that was in my soul: how we work, what our conditions are, what the wages are,” Kozlovska says.

Under the hashtag #BeLikeNina, medical workers all over Ukraine shared the nurse’s post – and in kind opened up about their own stories of overwork and underpay inside the country’s healthcare system.