Dozens of health professionals turned their backs on the Belgian Prime Minister, visiting the hospital in Brussels – Observer

The visit of Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès to Hospital Saint-Pierre, in the Belgian capital, was scheduled for this Saturday and several dozens of health professionals were keen to be present to receive her.

In silence, arranged in two lines along the way to the hospital’s main door, one of the reference institutions for the treatment of Covid-19 patients in that country, dozens of doctors, nurses, assistants, administrative and even cleaning staff were ostensibly turning their backs as that the entourage cars passed.

Some of the most powerful demonstrations are the silent ones Hospital staff did this to greet The Prime Minister of Belgium due to their government’s handling of the pandemic pic.twitter.com/BOIP4nRAWR

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The “dishonor guard” served to criticize the performance of the governor in the management of the pandemic – Belgium, with 11.5 million inhabitants, has 55 thousand confirmed cases of infection and over nine thousand dead -, and for emphasize the tiredness of professionals, at the forefront of combating the new coronavirus.

After the visit to the Brussels hospital, Sophie Wilmès spoke about the protest, which she says she understood as a request for the beginning of talks between the government and the health sector, in a press conference.

“Nothing will be the same after the crisis, we need to reassess the importance of the nursing profession, ”he added, alluding to the struggle that has brought nurses, who demand greater recognition, disagreements with the government.

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