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A group of internists doctors from Dr. Victorino Santaella Ruiz Hospital, Los Teques, Miranda state made its resignation official in the afternoon of this Friday, in fear of COVID-19 contagion.
This was announced in a statement by the area doctors for patients infected with COVID-19, in which they state that the measure obeys theAs few hygiene conditions, protection and the lack of biosafety equipment for the diagnosis of coronavirus patients.
It is worth mentioning that Dr. Victorino Santaella Ruiz Hospital is the only sentinel hospital in the Altomirandina region, where it is estimated that there are some 100 infected from various parts of the state Miranda and Capital District, the two states with the highest incidence of people infected with the virus.
“It is not just having gloves, masks and masks, it is the fear of becoming infected and not even having adequate treatment or that they send us to isolate ourselves in a hotel without food, as they did with our colleagues, ”said one of the doctors who asked to omit his identity.
They only canceled half of what was agreed
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The portal elpitazo.net reported that this massive resignation of doctors is also due to the fact that they feel cheated by the Miranda government, which promised them a payment in foreign currencies, (approximately $ 600), and they only canceled half of what was agreed.
“Initially they had offered a good remuneration in foreign currency, but not even all that money can with the fear of working exposed with more than 100 patients in the area,” they said.
On the other hand, they assure that the emergency doctors were being forced to fill the vacancies of the internists in the floors enabled by the hospitalization of patients with COVID-19.
Isolated in hotels
The group of doctors denounced The Pitazo than his colleagues who were positive diagnosed with COVID-19 they turned 10 isolated days in a hotel on the Pan-American highway. “They are experiencing needs, eating badly and with their families,” they added.
One of the cases that made mention is of the head of the internist service, who meets her two daughters in one of the health facilities arranged by the Government to house patients and suspected cases.
“They don’t let their family members bring them food or personal hygiene itemsThe latter are not supplied either, ”said one of the resident doctors, adding that four other doctors are equally isolated in these hotels.
“They got infected by working and that’s why we all decided to resign, because there are no prevention measures so that everyone’s destiny is not the same as theirs: isolated in a hotel without our relatives and without treatment, ”they said.
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