translated from Spanish: Ask for ISSSTE COVID hospital employees to clean up their work area

Managers of the COVID Hospital “20 november” in Mexico City, an institution belonging to ISSSTE, asked staff to work in the non-priority areas of the institution to clean themselves in their workplaces, because “no more toilets are available”.
The Deputy Medical Director of the Hospital, Rodrigo Rodríguez Briseño, informed the different managers of the areas that do not attend COVID cases on June 9th through a trade.
On June 11, the Deputy Director of Administration and Finance of the Hospital, Martha Beatriz Lojero Cuevas, issued a second office in which she explained that derived from the “actions to safeguard the health of the rightholders and staff of the Institute”, vulnerable cleaning personnel with some of the diseases highly susceptible to get COVID-19.
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“For this reason the workforce was reduced by 40% which has caused a lack of cleanliness in some administrative or common areas, giving priority to hospitalization services in which patients are being treated by COVID-19, such as Triage, Internal Medicine, Therapies, etc.”
The directive stated that in the case of the “non-priority areas (administrative and medical areas) of the hospital, the cleaning will be carried out in a staggered manner, for which the floor supervisor will move to his areas to agree on the day and time they will pass on.”
“It is also reported that the exhaustive ones are being carried out only in COVID area and critical areas in an extended manner or if necessary, floor polishing activities have also been cancelled until further notice, the former in order to prevent cross infections in the hospital and safeguard the health of the rightholders and staff of the institute.”
Political Animal sought out ISSSTE for a position on this issue. The answer that was given is that so far “no doctor” has had to clean up in their work area.

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Original source in Spanish