MEDICINA PROVA–TIPO 2 - unitau
MEDICINA PROVA–TIPO 2 - unitau
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Questions number 31 to 35 refer to the text below:<br />
Doctors and nurses forced to pick cotton<br />
By Ibrat Safo and William Kremer<br />
BBC World Service<br />
Vestibular UNITAU 2013<br />
16 October 2012 Last updated at 03:23 GMT<br />
After some international clothing firms such as H&M, Adidas and Marks and Spencer boycotted<br />
cotton from Uzbekistan in protest at the use of child labour, this year most Uzbek children are<br />
able to get on with their schoolwork. But office workers, nurses and even surgeons are being<br />
forced into the fields instead.<br />
Malvina, a nurse at a clinic in Tashkent, is angry.<br />
"I am almost 50 years old and I've got asthma. We had to pick a lot of cotton, all by hand - and we were<br />
not paid anything!"<br />
She has just returned from a 15-day stint picking cotton with other health professionals in rural<br />
Uzbekistan. It was hard toil and no-one was spared, whatever their seniority.<br />
"Some people phoned our surgeon, who was with us in the fields”.<br />
INGLÊS<br />
"They would say things like: 'You operated on me a week ago. I've got a temperature - what shall I do?'"<br />
Uzbekistan is one of the world's main producers of cotton and the crop is a mainstay of its economy. The<br />
government controls production and enforces Soviet-style quotas to get the harvest off the fields as<br />
quickly as possible.<br />
A history of using child and forced labour at harvest time has led to a number of retailers - including<br />
H&M, Marks and Spencer and Tesco - to pledge to source their cotton from elsewhere.<br />
In response, earlier this year Uzbekistan's Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyayev issued a decree banning<br />
children from working in the cotton fields. Yet many adults, including teachers, cleaners and office<br />
workers, are still forced to return to the land during October and November.<br />
This year, like last year, medical staff have been ordered to join them. There are reports of patients in<br />
towns being turned away because their doctor is "in cotton".<br />
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