FRIDAY, MAY 8
PROGRAM # 8879 12:00 PM PT
Mexico Edition.
While the Obrador administration hired the urgent purchase of mechanical ventilators and biosafety materials to attend the global coronavirus pandemic, the majority of Mexican doctors who have been treating Covid-19 patients for two months, do so with little equipment, without security protocols and with few labor guarantees. So, in six Mexican states, more than a hundred health workers were infected and at least ten doctors died. This lack of equipment, supplies and personnel – according to an expert in public health policies – was caused by the neoliberal governments, which for 35 years changed the law to privatize the country’s public health services and to take away labor rights from medical personnel, who are now hired even for fees, and although the current government promises that with its new national health system it will provide care and free medicine to the entire population, it continues to maintain the same contracting scheme for valuable medical personnel. Martha Elena Ramírez, hosts this broadcast of the program Voz Pública from Mexico City.
Guest (prerecorded interview): Dr. Gustavo Leal Fernández, PhD in Innsbruck, Austria; Intern at the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs in Madrid-Spain; Former Visiting Professor, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, Research Professor, Metropolitan Autonomous University-Xochimilco, Mexico City.
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