Ecatepec, Mex.- Jorge Alejandro López Rivas, university intern FES Iztacala of UNAM, for which he died Covid-19 at “Dr. José María Rodríguez ”, where he worked, is not the only student who was infected with coronavirus while making their residence, because there are more than 35 medical students they resulted positive for SARS-CoV-2.
This was denounced by the licensed internal doctors in a virtual press conference, which asked not to reveal their identity, for fear of reprisals. Even today “it exists five colleagues who are sick and tender because they were hospitalized with Covid-19 “.
There are another 20 detainees who have overcome the coronavirus and another 11 who have already completed their previous internship, who have also tested positive for Covid-19, medical students said.
As inpatients, they stated that their contact was permanent with the patients who come to the consultations in the various fields in which General Hospital „Dr. José María Rodríguez ”, located on the central boulevard, near Plaza Aragón, where they were doing their internship.
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Bachelor trainees mentioned that they worked with lack of equipment to protect themselves and the sick, which made the number of infections between them so high.
Among these infections is that of Cristhian, whose parents died recently after being infected by him, “it is one of the saddest cases, but we have all worked in inhumane conditions, sometimes enduring guards up to 36 for hours and without any support when we reported that we had symptoms, they did not even create us PCR tests, that many of us had to get out, ”they said.
They called on the Mexican Ministry of Health to improve working conditions in the hospital and provide detainees with the equipment they need to protect their physical integrity and that of patients, as is the case in the official standards published in the Official Gazette. of the Federation, establishes rights what they have peers.
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“We are cannon fodder, cheap labor, with a weak economic support of 1,800 pesos per month, in addition to the long working hours we have to complete the internship year,” they complained in a virtual conference in who only heard their voices.
In addition, representatives of medical residents from the hospital Mexican Ministry of Health, stated that they are in solidarity with their colleagues and also called for improved working conditions for them and for their superiors to be sensitive when one of them falls ill at this time of health emergency.
It is urgent that “we be considered for the application of the vaccine against Sars-CoV-2”, because there are medical staff who are vaccinated, although they are not in contact with patients with Covid-19, consideration when I know very well that we are internal doctors and residents at the highest risk ”.
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It should be noted that due to the death of Jorge Alejandro López Rivas, which took place on 4 January, FES Iztacala of the UNAM decided to withdraw in its entirety the team of graduate trainees of this UNAM faculty, assigned to the said unit, a measure which would be seconded National Polytechnic Institute and for Autonomous State University of Mexico.
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