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21 Oct. 2020 / 09:11
Doctors and health workers protest in Spain
Hundreds of doctors and health workers have protested in Spain over the authorities' lack of strategy in the current pandemic. The loudest protest was in Barcelona, where the resident doctors took off their clothes to show that they had reached the end of their patience, digi24.ro reports.
Doctors criticize the lack of hospital staff and denounce the exhaustion they have been subjected to for more than seven months. The loudest protest was in Barcelona, where resident doctors took off their clothes to show that they had reached the end of their patience.
Hundreds of residents condemn the Catalan government's lack of empathy, which has not increased their salaries for several years and has been exploiting them for more than half a year in endless shifts.
"We thought from day one that we were doctors and nurses. And we fought, not with courage, but rather with the enthusiasm that we had prepared for. Now, I've seen it's a marathon and it's starting to have psychological effects. The 1918 epidemic left an atmosphere of anxiety and depression in Europe that lasted for many years. It took four to five years to pass and I think it will be the same now," says César Carballo, doctor at the Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid.
The Catalan residents have been on strike for several days, as well as the doctors from 112 Madrid, who will be accompanied at the protest by their colleagues from all over the region, Mediafax reports.
More than 50,000 doctors became infected in the first months of the pandemic in Spain, when they believed that fighting COVID-19 was the mission of their generation.
Many employees in the Spanish healthcare system are now enduring the psychological effects that the whole of Spanish society is feeling, just as it was a century ago.
Several directors of the Madrid regional government resigned from the leadership of the health administration during the wave of protests organized by doctors' unions.
Hundreds of residents condemn the Catalan government's lack of empathy, which has not increased their salaries for several years and has been exploiting them for more than half a year in endless shifts.
"We thought from day one that we were doctors and nurses. And we fought, not with courage, but rather with the enthusiasm that we had prepared for. Now, I've seen it's a marathon and it's starting to have psychological effects. The 1918 epidemic left an atmosphere of anxiety and depression in Europe that lasted for many years. It took four to five years to pass and I think it will be the same now," says César Carballo, doctor at the Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid.
The Catalan residents have been on strike for several days, as well as the doctors from 112 Madrid, who will be accompanied at the protest by their colleagues from all over the region, Mediafax reports.
More than 50,000 doctors became infected in the first months of the pandemic in Spain, when they believed that fighting COVID-19 was the mission of their generation.
Many employees in the Spanish healthcare system are now enduring the psychological effects that the whole of Spanish society is feeling, just as it was a century ago.
Several directors of the Madrid regional government resigned from the leadership of the health administration during the wave of protests organized by doctors' unions.
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