The report ensured that in this healthcare facility work is being carried out on the total disinfection of the rooms, for which water with detergent and 5% sodium hypochlorite was delivered to each department, to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Andrés Lamas Acevedo, director general of the Cuban health facility, said around 900 samples were taken to perform a PCR test on hospital workers and patients, most of them pending results in the coming days to rule out COVID- 19.
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A brigade of Cuban health professionals shortly before traveling to South Africa to help curb the coronavirus, in Havana, Cuba, on April 25, 2020.
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However, on social networks several doctors in Cuba complained that, due to the outbreak, several workers were sanctioned and blamed for not having protected themselves from COVID-19.
María Del Carmen Álvarez Escobar, methodologist of the Medicine career at the University of Medical Sciences of Matanzas and mother of one of the doctors involved, denounced on Friday on her Facebook wall that “the unhappy infected from the Intermediate Therapy service are now also publicly sanctioned for not protecting themselves. “
“It is true, they were poorly protected because the person who had to watch over them did not provide it. I am not aware of the calls for attention, fines, daily visits to the risk area, pointing out irregularities, including sanctions for offenders. What a pity! and publicly sanctioned, “he wrote on the social network.
Among the comments to that publication, Elizabeth Díaz Vázquez lamented “how the situation has been handled, because we are also doctors in the Army of White Coats that the only thing we have done has been to work and save lives because we love our profession and our country.”
“It is important to recognize that our Intermediate Therapy service is a vital point in our hospital and we, the doctors, nurses, and the rest of the staff that work in ICUM work hard. (…) I do not think that we can speak of protection, because we put a lot of effort designing our own media. We were innovators, what happened was that they were not suitable for a virus where its contagion is very high. So, are we guilty? “
