Mexico leads the world in coronavirus deaths among its health care workers, Amnesty International says in new report.
workers have gotten one test, that appears insufficient for people who face daily exposure over months.
"Every health worker has the right to be safe at work, and it is a scandal that so many are paying the ultimate price,” he said.worker has adequate protective equipment. The government has claimed since March that hospital workers have had all the protective gear they need, but on several occasions hospital employees have blocked streets in Mexico City displaying what they said was ill-fitting, insufficient or substandard gear.
Carissa F. Etienne, director of the agency, said Wednesday that the Americas has “the highest number of health care workers infected in the world.” Such advice doesn't seem to have been followed in Mexico, where early in the pandemic there were at least two confirmed outbreaks at hospitals that sickened dozens of health care professionals.
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