MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexico is the world leader in coronavirus deaths among its fitness workers, Amnesty International said in a new report 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 examined. While the Mexican government has boasted that all physical care staff have been evaluated, this is unsuitable for others. people who have been exposed for months.
Health professionals in Mexico have also organized demonstrations against the lack of sufficiently good 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 foreign cooperation effort to ensure that each and every caregiver has a good enough protective team.
According to figures published last week, 97,632 Mexican nurses, doctors and other hospital workers 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 claimed since March that hospital staff have all the protective equipment they need, however, at various events, hospital staff have blocked streets in Mexico City by publishing what they say are ill-equipped, inadequate, or deficient.
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 2,506 COVID-19 deaths among fitness personnel in the Americas, adding the same 1,320 deaths in Mexico, 240 in Brazil and 660 in the United States.
Carissa F. Etienne, the agency’s director, said Wednesday that the Americas had “the highest amount of inflamed physical activity 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 should ensure that fitness personnel can do their jobs safely. “
She said that means providing enough protective devices 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 March 15 with acute respiratory distress. Once an extensive care physician diagnosed a likely coronavirus infection, the workers’ emergency corps requested non-public protective equipment, but it was not during the week that the patient was treated in the emergency room, 3 medical groups were exposed to it and eventually died. Hospital staff began to get sick a short time later.
Amnesty’s report also notes that “hospital cleaners in Mexico have been reported to be vulnerable to infection. Many cleaners in fitness services in Mexico are outsourced, meaning they are less protected.
In addition, several cases of infectious waste have accumulated in Mexican hospitals or been illegally dumped elsewhere.