translated from Spanish: UC medical interns started unemployment amid coronavirus crisis

7th year students of Catholic University Medicine began a stoppage of their internment activities, as the crisis progresses by the expansion of the coronavirus. Students are calling for their presence in health facilities, as determined by the Ministry of Health, to be suspended until “more staff are needed, in order to reduce the risk of contagion vectors.” In doing so, they insisted that they need protective measures, in addition to their work being voluntary and contracted by the portfolio. In addition, in a letter signed by students from different think homes, including UC, they also insist that this hiring should not be paid in case of getting sick. For his part, the director of the UC School of Medicine, Rafael Torres; and undergraduate director Marcela Cisternas rejected the mobilization through a missive. In this regard, they assured that this is a “serious lack of ethics and medical professionalism”. They added that “shame, ” as they claim that “we have had meetings with their representatives to ask for collaboration and understanding in the very difficult times we live.”

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