translated from Spanish: INER health staff protests lack of medical equipment

With slogans of “we do not want to get infected” and “we only ask for material” workers from the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER) protested about Tlalpan Causeway and inside the same hospital facilities because, they said, they are forcing them to reuse N95 masks and uniforms, when all this should be disposable.
One of the nurses reported to the media that since February the authorities had been equipping them with adequate protective equipment to treat patients with COVID-19.
“But on May 8 that changed, that day they sent us a letter in which they tell us that the material is going to change that now they will give us cloth robes and no longer disposable them, and that we will have to wash and reuse them, the same as the mask N95”.
INER staff reported that they were asked at the end of the day to mark their N95 bed covers with their names and keep them in a box to sanitize them and use them the next day.
Protest workers, about 50, said they have even had to wear the gowns intended for patients in the absence of enough cloth uniforms.
“What already spilled the case was that the Colleagues on Saturday and Sunday were told to wear the patients’ pajamas,” said one of the nurses.
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Original source in Spanish