Speech to the PSI Asia Pacific Regional Health Sector Network*
Dear brothers, sisters, friends, colleagues, comrades, I wish to start by expressing my heartfelt appreciation for being with you here today. This would be the first PSI regional network meeting, strictly speaking, that I would be attending since resuming as Health and Social Sector Officer. Before proceeding on what I have been asked to talk on, which essentially is to initiate discussion on the tasks at hand for us together , in the sector, permit me to say that my first impression of sisters and brothers within the sector in this region is one of deep respect and high hopes. Even before my resumption, I had received emails from comrades in all the regions with questions and suggestions. But it was from the Asia Pacific region that I received the most, and these were quite important. From Australian affiliates wanting to know how the working conditions of workers employed in France by the Australian multinational corporation Ramsay Healthcare (to be better prepared for a