In vain, they asked the Madrid regional president for a crisis meeting, say Spain's doctors.
Now they are acting themselves in the country hard hit by the corona pandemic.
In
Corona hotspot
Spain suffer
doctors
under
resource shortage
.
The problem existed before the
pandemic
- now it is
"unacceptably worse"
.
Now the largest
medical union in
the country has announced a
strike
.
Madrid - Because of a Corona *
overload
, the
doctors
in
Madrid
want to
stop
work.
The largest medical union in the region around the Spanish capital has called for an
"unlimited and full"
strike from September
28th
.
The strike had already been announced for the workers in the primary health care sector, but other sectors would join in the coming weeks, it said.
Coronavirus in Spain: According to doctors, the pandemic has led to "unacceptable aggravation"
For years, people have been suffering from a lack of
human
and
economic
resources, the union complained in a statement published on Thursday evening.
"The pandemic * but has led in recent months to unacceptable for us deterioration of the situation." The Madrid Regional President
Isabel Díaz Ayuso
was the repeatedly expressed Please failed to arrange a meeting to discuss the problems.
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Scene from a hospital in Spain: the doctors are completely overburdened in the corona pandemic.
© Miguel Riopa / AFP
Madrid was
hit particularly hard
by the corona pandemic * in the
corona hotspot Spain
in the spring
- and is now again the region of the country most affected by the new outbreaks *.
Of the 4,137 new infections within 24 hours * that the Spanish Ministry of Health reported for all of Spain last Thursday evening, 1,509 were in
Madrid
- that's more than
35 percent
.
Coronavirus in Spain: restrictions due to infections tightened
Spain already has more than 550,000 corona infections, more than any other country in Western Europe.
Therefore, numerous
restrictions
apply
in the public as well as in the private sector.
Since Monday, meetings of a
maximum of ten people have been
allowed
in Madrid
if they do not belong to the same household.
In addition, the maximum number of participants allowed at weddings, funerals and other events has been significantly reduced.
The
nightlife
is very limited in Spain.
A
mask requirement
applies
everywhere
- even outdoors.
(dpa / frs)
* Merkur.de is part of the Ippen digital editorial network.
List of rubric lists: © Miguel Riopa / AFP
