The ICN called the stage “catastrophic” and lashed out at governments for not doing enough to protect frontline fitness personnel from the new coronavirus pandemic.
The Geneva Federation brings together more than 130 national nurse associations (NIOs), representing more than 20 million nurses worldwide.
An ICD survey found that in countries where separate knowledge was available for nurses, more than 1,000 had died as a result of respiratory disease.
“As of August 14, the cumulative number of deaths reported through COVID-19 among nurses in countries is 1,097,” CIE said in a report.
“Since our dataset covers 44 countries with registered nurse deaths, the ICC estimates that this number particularly underestimates the situation. “
He said there had been 351 COVID-19-related deaths among nurses in Brazil as of August 11, the figure in the knowledge pool, and 212 in Mexico, according to the most recent figures.
Moving away from nurses, human rights organization Amnesty International said on 3 September that at least 7,000 people in physical condition of all kinds had died internationally after contracting COVID-19.
The IAD report indicated that there is not yet a systematic global record of the number of nurses and other fitness personnel who contracted or died from the disease.
‘Outrageous situation’
THE PRESIDENT Annette Kennedy, the report’s findings are “disturbing. “
“Nurses and other fitness staff are still exposed to COVID-19 and all related risks, adding violence and prejudice, intellectual diseases, infections and, in what are now perhaps thousands of cases, make the ultimate sacrifice by paying with their lives. “”she says.
“Nurses are undervalued, underpaid and treated as dead resources. This is an outrageous scenario that the ICC urges governments to rectify. “
The ICD reported that, to the knowledge of 32 countries, as of August 14, 572,478 physical fitness inflamed with COVID-19 had been reported, representing an average of 10% of all cases.
Only 16 of the 33 NIA indicated that COVID-19 is identified as an occupational disease for fitness personnel, a classification that affects the right to rights and reimbursement of those who contract the disease at work.