translated from Spanish: Guatemalan doctors stop amid pandemic for non-payment

Guatemala City.- Doctors who care for patients infected by the new coronavirus in a temporary hospital in Guatemala paralyzed their work on Monday indefinitely due to non-payment and health equipment to work safely.” The general practitioners who currently work at the Hospital Parque de la Industria are declared from today June 8, 2020 in permanent session (stop)”, indicates a missive sent to guatemalan president, Alejandro Giammattei.

The professionals clarified that they will not neglect “the care of symptomatic, moderate and critical patients who warrant immediate care”, according to the document read to journalists by the doctor Luis Angel Barrientos.The temporary hospital in the Industry Park was built by the government to care for patients of covid-19, but the Gallens have reported irregularities in working conditions , such as non-payment and protective supplies. Patients who are cared for in that temporary nosococcus have also reported delays in delivering coronavirus test results. In the missive, doctors claim that they will maintain the measure until their claims are contemplated.” We practically have to be be begging (the government) to give us personal protective equipment,” they claimed, after indicating that the representative in his national chain messages “brags” that the inputs are sufficient. Giammattei announced on Sunday national network that it extended for a week more partial curfew and measures imposed to contain the pandemic, which leaves 7,055 cases and 252 deaths in the country. Last week, the ruler announced a four-phase plan for a return to normal for the country’s nearly 17 million inhabitants, but without specifying dates. Its onset will depend on the reduction of daily contagions. Since March, Guatemala has been implementing measures such as the suspension of public transport and classes. Social, religious, sporting and cultural activities are also prohibited, while air, sea and land borders are closed to foreigners.

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