Ecatepec, Mex. – Jorge Alejandro López Rivas, undergraduate intern at the FES Iztacala of the UNAM, who died for it COVID-19 at the “Dr. José María Rodríguez”, where he worked, is not the only student infected with the corona virus while doing their residency, because there are more than that 35 medical students have resulted positive for SARS-CoV-2.
This was denounced by undergraduate in-house doctors in a virtual press conference, who asked for their identities not to be revealed for fear of reprisals. Even today ‘is there five colleagues who are sick and delicate because they were infected with Covid-19 in the hospital “.
There are 20 more inmates who have conquered the coronavirus and 11 more who have already completed their internship, who also tested positive for Covid-19, medical students indicated.
As in-house physicians, they confirmed that their contact was permanent with patients attending consultations in the different areas that the General Hospital “Dr. José María Rodríguez ”, located on Central Avenue, next to Plaza Aragón, where they did an internship.
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Undergraduate interns noted that they worked together lack of equipment to protect themselves and the sick, which made the number of infections between them so high.
One of these infections is that of Cristhian, whose parents recently died when they were infected by him. support when we reported that we have symptoms, they didn’t even make us PCR tests, that some of us had to get out, ”they said.
They requested the authorities of the Ministry of Health of the State of Mexico to improve the working conditions in the hospital and that the inmates be provided with the equipment they need to protect their physical integrity and that of the patients, as published in the official standards in the Government Gazette of the Federation, the rights what have the fellows.
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“We are cannon fodder, cheap labor, with a meager economic support of 1,800 pesos a month, in addition to the long working hours we have to complete the internship year,” they complained at a virtual conference in which only they heard their voices.
In addition, representatives of the medical residents from the hospital Ministry of Health of Mexico, affirmed their solidarity with their colleagues, and also called for working conditions for them to be improved, and for their superiors to be sensitive when any of them fall ill in this time of health need.
It is urgent that “they consider us for the use of the Sars-CoV-2 vaccine” as there are medical personnel who are vaccinated, although they have no contact with Covid-19 patients, “it is unfair that the hospital directors do not consider us if they know well that we are in-house physicians and residents most at risk ”.
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It should be noted that due to 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 from this UNAM faculty assigned to this unit, a measure that would be seconded by the National Polytechnic Institute and for the Autonomous Mexico State University.
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