Medics around the world face hostility over virus stigma
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Decades of poor education and scant government services in some places have created deep misgivings about the medical profession.In central India, a group of five health workers, dressed in full protective suits, entered a neighborhood to quarantine contacts of a confirmed COVID-19 patient when a mob descended, slinging stones and screaming insults.“Some people felt that the doctors and nurses will come and take their blood,” said Laxmi Narayan Sharma, the health union president in Madhya Pradesh, in central India. A nurse in Ethiopia said taxis refuse to pick up workers coming out of the nation’s main hospital dedicated to coronavirus patients.As the wave of attacks spurs government efforts to better support medical personnel and dispel rumors, many doctors draw optimism from growing public awareness.After police dispersed the mob beneath her balcony in Ismailia, some people came back to apologize, Abdel-Salam said.
As said here by SAMY MAGDY and EMILY SCHMALL