Mexican doctors attached with Bleach, stuck on fears Corona transmission

Mexican doctors attached with Bleach, stuck on fears Corona transmission

(Bloomberg) – Dr. Angela Vargas works at a hospital in Mexico City with patients with rheumatic diseases, no cases of the crown. But when they leave the clinic has treated as if they are sick themselves. To avoid being attacked, as did some of their colleagues, Vargas, 46, changes in civilian clothes when you leave the hospital. “When people see that you are a nurse or you work in a hospital, look at you like you are infected,” he told Bloomberg on Thursday. Read more: workers at the forefront of their stories in the new issue of TIME Say While doctors from Florida to Italy have been located acclaimed by the public, in Mexico, some were attacked in the streets, banned by public transport, and in some cases, sprinkled with bleach. And ‘success on a charge nurse in Vargas hospital and for messages to be a doctor in the state of Jalisco and a nurse in Sinaloa. Mexico is not the only country in which they were targeted doctors of them, who fear that they have the virus spreads. was in India, health workers from monsters or forced eliminated houses. The assaults have been reported from Australia to the Philippines. It is updated here with our daily newsletter crown. Monday ‘, Fabiana Zepeda, the head nurse of the National Health System in Mexico, known as IMSS, pleaded with people to un’attacchi press against health workers to stop. He said that IMSS has recorded at least 21 attacks against employees in 12 states, but many others have reported through social media. “We sincerely invite you to respect us,” he said with tears in his eyes. “We need the maximum solidarity in these moments that call on hold together for all Mexicans,” he said at a conference during the daily COVID-19 Presentation of the Ministry of Health. Mexico has 12,872 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 1,221 deaths as of Saturday. Health officials say the actual number of patients can be eight times amount. Apart from the attack, health care workers are facing a besieged hospital system to spread the missing equipment and staff before the virus. Hospital staff in different cities, including Tijuana, denounced the lack of protective equipment and personnel. Vargas says that its inhabitants their surgical masks in Mexico City for sale. Read more: The coronavirus pandemic may fear a pandemic from April because doctors and 10,329 nurses tested positive for the virus, Victor Hugo Borja, an IMSS official, said local media. Only in the state of Coahuila least 100 were sick and five died from head on April 15, since a hospital in the state sold 19 COVID-President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said hospitals in the country, ready to tackle the crisis. “We still have reached capacity,” he said on Wednesday, while recognizing that the medical equipment is required when the epidemic reached its peak in the preparation. Mexico expects 2,500 fans from China and the US to come in the months of April and May. The government is also the medical staff to hire and implemented a bonus for the treatment of patients COVID-19 about 20% of their salary. The National Guard began at the gates of the IMSS hospitals on April 14 to protect workers and patients look, Zepeda said. But Vargas says Mexico needs more protection for hospital staff from attacks to do. “It ‘irritating and sad,” he said. Please “People do not realize that some of those health care providers who treat fewer workers to attack, Central COVID-19 patients could be hurt.” Send you suggestions, cables and [email protected] stories.
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