Front line health care workers  receive threats

Doctors and other front line health care workers in  Emergency Rooms (ER) and Intensive Care Units report who are understaffed and overstretched are receiving threats from relatives of some patients who have died from COVID-19.

In a Saturday, June 10 statement The Panamanian Association of Intensive Care Doctors  and health professionals (Aspami) denounced the threats

T he Association said that they were notified that medical staff and health personnel received “physical and psychological” threats, despite the “firm and vertical” support for the population severely affected by the ravages of this disease.

“Despite the tiredness, stress, physical and emotional fatigue that represents our areas of care, we have remained firm and committed to patients and families, even when the picture is discouraging and sometimes frustrating due to the impotence we feel facing difficulties in care and patient losses ”, says the statement

The association asks for the support of the population and the security forces to guarantee patient care and the integrity of the medical and health personnel.

“We understand the difficult circumstances of a seriously hospitalized family member, however, we reject the issuance of threats to any of the health professionals who daily go the extra mile to recover the majority of our patients,” added Aspmi. .