E ‘to be like a Medic war. ‘A Madrid doctor speaks of the serious shortcomings of protective devices

Spain has the highest rate reported in the world of COVID-19 for doctors and nurses infection. 15,000 health workers have become sick or to isolate themselves, 14% of confirmed cases in the country, according to the Ministry of Health. In Italy, the number is less than 10%. No other country has a double-digit percentage of reported cases involve doctors. Spanish doctors and nurses say they need protection, certainly missing for the treatment of patients in crowded hospitals. The government’s emergency chief admitted last week that the shortage has fueled a high rate of infection among medical professionals. In recent days, the unions representing health workers, have a series of lawsuits against the government in the regions of Spain and in the Supreme Court, presented to the enforcement authorities in an effort to improve regulation improvements. Meanwhile, doctors have pictures of colleagues with waterproof disposable, garbage bags and other improvised materials for protection from shared viruses. Sara, 42, is an emergency physician in Madrid Spanish epicenter, where a union says more than one-fifth of COVID-19 cases were health care workers. Sara asked, always use only their first names because they feared the consequences of explicit professional to talk. She believes poor coordination of the authorities and slow to take drastic measures against the virus have impair the ones in the front. Sarah told the time on the phone from his home in Madrid on March 31 it feels like we played for fools to be. Since the COVID-19 is advanced pandemic, and the number of cases increased, and have cases of serious, authorities say somehow get us, we need a lower level of protection. A month ago, it was mandatory to wear a waterproof suit and a high-quality mask, even for low-risk activities. Not anymore. If you can not get close to a patient, and not to do certain tasks, they say, you only need a surgical mask and normal suit. Occasionally we use repeatedly suits when normally we would like to see every time you change going on a break or a new patient. It increases the risk that you are infected. I do not think about it when patients are being treated. But the rules that fall make me feel insecure. I worry for my husband and infect my children. We do what we can: Connect for ways to make impromptu masks and suits. A few days ago my hospital received a donation of protective pants by a company. Groups of volunteers were giving us in 3-D printed plastic films as protective shields for space. We can disinfect and use them several times before they break. But still, many of us sick. I have colleagues who are in intensive care, with severe cases of COVID-19 Right now I’m isolating myself at home because I have a little ‘fever. I tested negative, but since I have given, I can not go to the back to the hospital for fever goes down. It is updated here with our daily newsletter crown. The duty of a doctor to look after patients. to manage the role of manager. I know it must be really difficult for the authorities to ensure we have the resources at this time. But it’s their job. There should be a better way to do it. Other countries have been able to do better. If you see pictures of health workers in China, although perhaps these are the ones who want to see us, they have the full protection suits and carry two separate layers. We only carry a film when we. There was a lack of coordination in Spain. Individuals become more and manage resources. Celebrities were in order to donate to hospitals. Why does the government get those things in the first place? The fact that leaders must act has also been slow led to more medical patients. Because it is a disease that gradually extended, they have made decisions of governments gradually. And it is too little too late. We must act like a bomb had fallen. When the first cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Spain, they said they were all imported from Italy and China. We have been seeing an unusual number of respiratory infections, and were not letting us try them. They did not allow a mask and protective suit for the patient, we use the virus suspicion because Madrid was not yet considered a range of community transmission. These sick restrictions led to more doctors. In Spain we have never had in previous jobs as they have. Doctors are to be used that perhaps in other countries where there are not very many doctors or equipment. But in Spain we are not used to working this way, and we are not trained nor to do. It is very difficult. Doctors in the United States should prepare for a war. In terms of number of protective suits you, the number of hospital beds, the number of fans in the ICU have is like a war to be paramedics. Try to prepare. Please send any suggestions, cables and [email protected] stories.
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