Only in the first week of August have they died in Venezuela 12 doctors by COVID-19. The highest number of deaths was recorded in the state of Zulia with six casualties that mourn health personnel.
For registration from August 1 to 7, Cocuyo effect It contrasted the information provided by government sources, medical colleges and the non-governmental organization Doctors United of Venezuela.
The lack of personal protective equipment and supplies has been a constant denounced by the union. The monitoring and response program for COVID-19, Health Monitor, indicated that since the beginning of the pandemic, in seven of the 16 hospitals in the Caracas Metropolitan Area there are no gloves, in eight there is no mask, in 13 the masks are reused, seven have no water supply. No center has soap.
In the month of July they were counted 25 deaths related to health personnel. Which means that the 12 deaths that occurred in the first seven days of August represent half of the total accumulated in the past month.
According to the registry of Cocuyo effect, 48 health workers have passed away in the country as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. All Venezuela accumulates 24,166 confirmed cases of the disease, of which 3,952 are people from the state of Zulia, the second entity with the most cases behind the Capital District.
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