ILLUSTRATION. Medics from the National Health Service (NHS) at Aintree University Hospital during the Clap for our Carers campaign to support the NHS, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, Liverpool, UK, 7 May 2020.
Source: Reuters | Editor: SS Kurniawan
KONTAN.CO.ID – GENEVA. One in seven cases of the new coronavirus reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) are medical personnel. And, in some countries, the figure has increased to one in three cases.
WHO is calling for frontline medical workers to get protective equipment to prevent them from becoming infected with the new coronavirus. Because, potentially spreading it to patients and their families.
“Globally, about 14 percent of the Covid-19 cases reported to WHO occur among medical personnel, and in some countries as much as 35 percent,” said WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Thursday (17/9), as quoted Reuters.
Only, he said, data was limited and it was difficult to know whether medical workers were infected with the coronavirus in their workplace or their communities.
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“It’s not just the risk of infection. Every day, medical workers experience stress, fatigue, stigma, discrimination, and even violence, ”said Tedros during a World Patient Safety Day press conference.
Haunts medics
Guy Ryder, Director General of the International Labor Organization (ILO), said the WHO figures on infections among medical workers were “shocking testimony”.
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