MEXICO CITY – Mexico is the world leader in coronavirus deaths among its fitness workers, Amnesty International said in a new report on Wednesday.
He said Mexico had reported 1,320 COVIID-19 deaths, beating the United States with 1077, the United Kingdom with 649 and Brazil with 634.
The report will most likely rekindle the debate on the incredibly low rate of coronavirus testing in Mexico, with less than one in a hundred Mexicans evaluated.people who have been exposed for months.
Health professionals in Mexico have also organized demonstrations against the lack of good enough non-public protective equipment.
Steve Cockburn, Amnesty International’s head of economic and social justice at Amnesty International, called the global death toll of more than 7,000 fitness a “crisis of astonishing proportions.”
“Every fitness employee has the right to be at work, and it’s a scandal that so many people pay the maximum price,” he said.
Cockburn called for a cooperative foreign effort to ensure that each and every healthcare employee has good enough protective equipment.
According to figures published last week, 97,632 nurses, doctors and other hospital workers in Mexico have tested positive for coronavirus since the onset of the pandemic, about 17% of all cases in the country at this stage.Tuesday, however, there have been no reports this week to update the figures.
Nurses accounted for 42% of those infected, doctors 27% and other hospital workers such as technicians, assistants and 31% maintenance and cleaning.
The government has said since March that hospital workers had all the protective equipment they needed, but at various events hospital workers blocked the streets of Mexico City by displaying devices that didn’t work well for them, were insufficient or inferior.
Death statistics vary depending on who ranks each country as a fitness worker, how deaths are confirmed, and how they are reported.
The Pan American Health Organization, for example, lists 2506 COVID-19 deaths among fitness personnel in the Americas, adding the same 1320 deaths in Mexico, 240 in Brazil and 660 in the United States.
Carissa F.Etienne, the agency’s director, said Wednesday that America has “the highest amount of inflamed fitness in the world.”
“In the United States and Mexico, which have one of the highest number of cases in the world, fitness personnel account for one in seven cases,” Etienne said.”Countries will need to make sure that fitness staff can do their jobs safely.”
She said this means providing a protective device good enough for staff and an education good enough for them in effective infection control.
Such a recommendation appears to have been followed in Mexico, where at the beginning of the pandemic, there were at least two outbreaks in hospitals that sickened dozens of fitness professionals.
In April, a public hospital in the northern metal city of Monclova became the concentrate of a coronavirus outbreak that insopped at least 26 doctors and killed one of its doctors.
According to a hospital employee, a patient arrived in the emergency room of Monclova hospital on 15 March with acute respiratory distress.After an extensive care physician diagnosed a likely coronavirus infection, emergency room staff requested non-public protective equipment, but did not provide it.During the week the patient was treated in the ER, 3 groups of medical personnel were exposed to him.The patient finally died. Hospital staff began to get sick soon after.
Amnesty’s report also notes that “Hospital cleaners in Mexico have been reported to be vulnerable to infection.Many fitness service cleaners in Mexico are outsourced, meaning they are less protected.”
In addition, several cases showed that infectious waste has accumulated in Mexican hospitals or been illegally dumped elsewhere.
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