Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1995, published 82nd ILC session (1995)

Nursing Personnel Convention, 1977 (No. 149) - Belarus (Ratification: 1979)

The Committee notes the detailed report supplied by the Government and requests it to provide additional information on the following points.

Article 2, paragraph 2(b), of the Convention. Please indicate the various legal provisions and regulations applicable to nursing personnel in the public and the private sectors which are likely to attract persons to the profession and retain them in it, in accordance with this provision of the Convention.

Article 4. Please supply a copy of the Public Health Act adopted on 18 June 1993 by the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Belarus.

Article 5. Please indicate the legal provisions or regulations which have been adopted to promote the participation of nursing personnel in the public and the private sectors in the planning of nursing services and the consultation with such personnel on decisions concerning them.

Article 7. The Committee notes the Government's constant concern, with the participation of trade union organizations, with the formulation and observance of occupational safety and health measures. Furthermore, with reference to its general observation of 1990, which was reiterated in 1994, the Committee requests the Government to indicate the measures which have been taken or are envisaged, in consultation with the employers' and workers' organizations concerned, to take into account the particular risk of accidental exposure to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among nursing personnel: for example, through the arrangement of working conditions, the confidentiality of test results, recognition that the cause of infection was occupational, etc.

Point V of the report form. Please continue to supply general information on the manner in which the Convention is applied in practice and also supply, where possible, information on the number of persons leaving the profession.