Tunisia-AUDIO:We are really off to a bad start if health professionals refuse to take care of the sick

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The editorial staff of TunisieNumerique received a call from a woman doctor who wanted to make a distress call, because her husband, a doctor too, and who is being treated for a tumor, was refused in a private clinic for a simple suspicion of coronavirus infection.

 

The editorial staff of TunisieNumerique received a call from a woman doctor who wanted to make a distress call, because her husband, a doctor too, and who is being treated for a tumor, was refused in a private clinic for a simple suspicion of coronavirus infection. The lady in question told TunisieNumerique her mishap with the staff of a private clinic in Tunis, who refused to hospitalize her husband who suffered from a pulmonary infection and who was in respiratory distress, being a weakened and immunosuppressed patient , by chemotherapy sessions for a tumor problem. The patient's wife was in the process of explaining her husband's case when, suddenly and for unknown reasons, clinic staff suspected a possible coronavirus infection at home. They immediately asked her to leave and take her suffering husband to Ariana hospital. When she explained to him that he was untransportable in his condition, since he depended on the oxygen source to which he was attached, they offered to call him an ambulance for the transfer. No matter how much she explains to them that her husband could not survive a few hours in the Ariana hospital emergency room because he was very fragile, they refused to hear anything. They were panicked and kept away from the patient and asked them to evacuate the room. They also refused to have the patient tested for coronavirus, since his coronavirus infection was only a presumption on their part, whereas he was most likely suffering from a banal pulmonary infection, which could be treated very simply, and which did not require that it be exposed to an almost certain death. And to say that, as recently as a few days ago, the union chamber of private clinics assured that it was going to lend a hand to public health structures. However, it is obvious that we will have to rely on something other than support. And the health minister had better stop counting private sector resuscitation beds as part of the health system’s arsenal to fight the epidemic. Audio player

Edited March 22, 2020 by NVST