Ecatepec, Mexico.- Jorge Alejandro López Rivas, undergraduate intern at the FES Iztacala of UNAM, who died for Covid-19 at the “Dr. José María Rodríguez” hospital, where he worked, he is not the only student who was infected with coronavirus while performing their residency, as there are more than 35 medical students have resulted positive for SARS-CoV-2.
This was reported by undergraduate internal doctors at a virtual press conference, who asked not to reveal their identity, for fear of reprisals. Even today “there 05:00 colleagues who are ill and delicate because they were entrusted to Covid-19 Hospital. “
There are another 20 interns who passed the coronavirus and 11 more who had already finished their boarding school before, who also tested positive for Covid-19, medical students said.
As internal doctors, they stated that their contact was permanent with patients who go to consultations in the different areas of the General Hospital “Dr. José María Rodríguez”, located in the Central avenue, next to Aragon Place, where they realized his boarding school.
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Undergraduate interns noted that they worked with lack of equipment to protect themselves and protect the sick, Which caused the number of infections between them to be so high.
Among these contagions is that of Cristhian, whose parents recently died from being infected by him, “is a case of the saddest, but we have all worked under inhumane conditions, sometimes enduring guards of up to 36 hours run, and without any support when we reported having symptoms, they didn’t even make us PCR tests, that several of us had to do it outside, ”they recounted.
They called on the authorities of the Secretary of Health of the State of Mexico to improve working conditions in the hospital and give inmates the equipment they require to protect their physical integrity and that of patients, as in the Official Rules published in the Official Gazette of the Federation, the rights that have the fellows.
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“We are cannon fodder, cheap labor, with a meager financial support of 1,800 pesos a month, in addition to the long working hours we have to meet the year of internment,” they lamented in conference virtual in which only their voices were heard.
In addition, representatives of the resident physicians of the hospital of the Mexican Secretary of Health, They stated that they stand in solidarity with their colleagues, and also called for better working conditions for them, and for their superiors to be sensitive when any of them become ill in this time of health emergency.
It is urgent that “we be considered for the application of the Sars-VOC-2 vaccine,” as there are medical personnel who are vaccinating, even though they are not in contact with Covid-19 patients, “it is unfair that the directors of the hospital do not consider us when they know that we are the internal and resident doctors who are most exposed “.
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It should be noted that for the death of Jorge Alejandro López Rivas, which occurred on January 4, the FES Iztacala of the UNAM decided to withdraw in its entirety the team of interns undergraduate undergraduate from this Faculty of UNAM, assigned to this unit, a measure that would be seconded by the National Polytechnic Institute and for the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico.
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