Germany mourns its 80,000 Covid dead; Coronavirus crisis deepens across India
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April 19, 2021
New Delhi: More government hospital beds will be freed for Covid-19 patients, India’s health ministry said Sunday, as the vast nation grappled with a worsening virus crisis and states appealed for additional supplies of oxygen and treatment drugs.
The country of 1.3 billion people added a record-high of 261,500 new cases on Sunday, with one-in-six people who underwent tests returning positive coronavirus results, the ministry said.
India is the world’s second most-infected nation with almost 14.8 million cases. Hospitals usually reserved for employees of ministries or public sector companies should convert some of their wards into Covid-19 facilities equipped with ICU and oxygen-supported beds, ventilators, laboratories and healthcare staff, the government said.
FRENCH hospital interns are at breaking point after a year on the Covid front line and a number of them have committed suicide, a union representing them has revealed.
A study conducted by the National Interns Union (ISNI) over a three-month period in 2019 found that medical student interns were working at least 58 hours a week.
But when the coronavirus pandemic arrived, the figure shot up to about 80 hours a week.
“They are on call 24 hours a day and, during the pandemic, you don’t get to shut your eyes, not even for a micronap,” said ISNI general secretary Gaetan Casanova.
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COVID-19 pandemic leaves French hospital interns at breaking point
Medical interns and families lay flowers below a banner reading The hospital is killing his interns, help us live as they pay homage to five medical interns who committed suicide since the beginning of the year during a gathering in front of the French Health Ministry to denounce the heavy workload, in Paris, on Apr 17, 2021. (Photo: Thomas SAMSON/AFP)
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PARIS: After a year working brutally long hours on the COVID front-line , hospital interns in France are at breaking point, to the extent that some of them have even committed suicide, according to a national union.