Japan’s Nurses Say “NO” to Hosting the Summer Olympics
Love the Olympics? You’re in luck. Japan says this year’s summer Olympic games will go ahead as planned despite concerns over the coronavirus. However, this year’s festivities come with a catch: In order to host the games, Japan is asking 500 nurses to volunteer their services.
Japan is currently facing its fourth wave of COVID-19. Hospitals and medical facilities are overrun in certain parts of the region. So, when the government asked 500 nurses to suit up for the Olympics, people were less than enthusiastic.
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Tokyo Games need 500 nurses; nurses say needs are elsewhere
YURI KAGEYAMA and STEPHEN WADE, Associated Press
May 2, 2021
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TOKYO (AP) Some nurses in Japan are incensed at a request from Tokyo Olympic organizers to have 500 of them dispatched to help out with the games. They say they’re already near the breaking point dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.
Olympic officials have said they will need 10,000 medical workers to staff the games, and the request for more nurses comes amid a new spike in the virus with Tokyo and Osaka under a state of emergency.
“Beyond feeling anger, I was stunned at the insensitivity, Mikito Ikeda, a nurse in Nagoya in central Japan, told the Associated Press. “It shows how human life is being taken lightly.”
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Nurses protest Tokyo organizers request of 500 nurses for Olympics amid pandemic
TOKYO Some nurses in Japan are incensed at a request from Tokyo Olympic organizers to have 500 of them dispatched to help out with the Games. They say they re already near the breaking point dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.
Olympic officials have said they will need 10,000 medical workers to staff the Games, and the request for more nurses comes amid a new spike in the virus with Tokyo and Osaka under a state of emergency. Beyond feeling anger, I was stunned at the insensitivity, Mikito Ikeda, a nurse in Nagoya in central Japan, told the Associated Press. It shows how human life is being taken lightly.
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TOKYO, May 3, (AP): Some nurses in Japan are incensed at a request from Tokyo Olympic organizers to have 500 of them dispatched to help out with the games. They say they’re already near the breaking point dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Olympic officials have said they will need 10,000 medical workers to staff the games, and the request for more nurses comes amid a new spike in the virus with Tokyo and Osaka under a state of emergency. “Beyond feeling anger, I was stunned at the insensitivity,” Mikito Ikeda, a nurse in Nagoya in central Japan, told the Associated Press. “It shows how human life is being taken lightly.”