The terrible image that scandalizes Venezuela: people killed by the coronavirus are dragged down the stairs of a health center

A video circulating on social networks show me how people killed by coronavirus at the University Hospital of Maracaibo are dragged down the stairs to the morgues since the elevators of the medical establishment are not working.

Organization Health Monitor Venezuela posted the images on his social media and said that “Biosecurity measures are not respected, staff are subjected to relationships with patients without adequate personal protective equipment”. At the University of Maracaibo, 30 patients are currently hospitalized for COVID-19, including six in intensive care units.

According to its website, the organization’s mission is “to establish a system of permanent supervision, evaluation and surveillance of epidemiological data generated in the health system in Venezuela, which serves as a decision-making instrument regarding the design, implementation and evaluation of health plans and policies ”.

The entity operates like the voice of health workers in Venezuela, who demand better conditions to carry out their tasks during the coronavirus pandemic. File complaints on social networks to make visible the problems plaguing the health system of the South American country, offers weekly reviews of the situation in hospitals and publishes the number of healthcare workers who died from COVID-19. April 2021 was the month with the highest number of fatalities among healthcare workers, with 103.

On May 1, on the occasion of International Labor Day, workers from different unions in Venezuela, they demanded “decent” wages and mass vaccination against COVID-19 amid the “humanitarian crisis” and pandemic which, according to official figures, has claimed 197,683 infections and 2,136 deaths in the country.

In several states such as the capital district, Miranda (center), Lara (west), Táchira (west) and Zulia (north-west), dozens of workers, accompanied by civil organizations and opposition politicians, gathered to express their rejection of the working conditions they currently enjoy and that, they argue, does not guarantee a quality of life.

In Venezuela, the minimum wage is 0.63 cents on the dollar, according to the official price.

The workers demonstrated with banners demanding “decent wages“,”labor claims“Y”vaccines for all“, But they also expressed their”rejection of repression»From the regime of Nicolás Maduro.

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