The Minister of Health in Madrid, Javier Fernández, made yesterday as a catalyst for the confusion, anger and fear felt by a hospital staff after infection auxiliary Teresa Romero. Fernandez, who had yesterday accused without proof Romero lying about their status, returned to relativize its evolution – “would not be so bad if you went to the hairdresser” – and, in turn, to ridicule the accident which supposedly was infected – “to wear a suit do not need a master.” –
All parties, including yours (PP), and all professional unions attacked he r eclamaron resign . The CSIF accused of pressuring the auxiliary to be blamed contagion and thus derive the pressure is suffering administration.
However, the situations of greatest tension suffered in hospitals. And specifically in the Hospital de Alcorcón, where Teresa Romero entered and where it was confirmed that he was infected with Ebola.
“Working here means that we provide today is not safe and I am not willing to jeopardize my health. At the slightest suspicion of infection by Ebola another I unsubscribe “. This nurse Alcorcón summarizes “the message of many companions” of the hospital that “dare not speak to the media” for fear, after the doctor who treated Teresa Romero denounced numerous irregularities during the hours the patient spent in this center in southern Madrid.
yesterday, according to several sources, were 13 the number of health workers who had ER discharged . “Some claim stress, others fear, depression and other” says a nurse who continues to work in the hospital and admits that “it is not a matter of professionalism not by their peers, but a natural fear of becoming infected because things were not made well and neither are making decisions to act correctly “in the case of a patient access center with symptoms of the virus.
This is the puzzle that squaring responsible for all shifts are covered, they have been forced to ‘please ask’ to other downtown workers who go to the ER “to face provisionally. ” “To me I would not have proposed, or do so because they will have a not as big response like the shit they have committed” .
Despite this lack personal, hallways and Alcorcon Emergency waiting rooms did not have any collapse. Quite the contrary. «Unusual» Tranquility: the room in which the family await the diagnosis of their own, which has a capacity of more than 50 people was occupied early in the afternoon by four people: “ What we do, other is not us. What we see on television makes us afraid to come here, but do not have the means to move to cities like Leganés or Móstoles. ” Precisely in these cities are welcoming many neighbors Alcorcon. A nurse University of Móstoles ensures that the emergency has passed its center in the last two days 15% more patients than usual Alcorcón.
And in the north of Madrid, Carlos III Hospital while evicted from the fourth floor to the 18 unrelated patients with Ebola that remained in the center, staff SAMUR taught classes to health (intensivists, nurses, orderlies …) on how they wished to register and safely removed the protective suit.
This center also lived a day of protests against the director Rodriguez. A co-Teresa Romero deplored its intention to “criminalize” to health and crossed the personnel board reviews “inadmissible”. There were also complaints about the lack of means of protection. Unions lamented who is moving staff from other centers to Carlos III force without training.
Until last April, this Madrid to La Paz hospital -close and much smaller than – was considered a reference center for imported tropical diseases (in fact, it was the Spanish hospital with more patients with malaria attended). However, almost a fatal coincidence, the decision of the Madrid Counseling to merge with La Paz coincided with the appearance on the world map of the first cases of Ebola in Africa West .
Unions as CSIF desgañitaron for months with letters and protests, warning that the dismissal of the professionals and the transfer of as many La Paz (including the closure of the UCI), involved the dismantling of this reference center. Especially while the works were not ready to bring a wing at the Military Hospital Gómez Ulla who serve for this work.
As a physician recognizes this center, who prefers to remain anonymous, the strength of Carlos III was not so much in its facilities (obsolete, as seen by wandering through its rooms, with capacity for 79 beds) and their teams, including seven specialists in tropical medicine, whose role in the crisis has been Ebola born partly by the Internal Medicine and Intensive Care of La Paz. “The judgment [in the crisis] is not so much on the premises, and staff training” says.
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