Corona “ticks” into the “government of Beirut”

News: 114 cases of coronavirus have been registered – to date – by the “counter” of the Beirut Government Hospital, among medical and administrative staff. Yesterday, there were 4 new injuries, while a large number of workers underwent PCR testing. These scenes are no longer new there, after they have become routine. The workers ask, to reassure them, “who was injured today”. To this extent, the Corona virus “works” in the hospital. There, employees wait for the virus to spread. For them, the matter has become “like the lottery if it is not Thursday of the dragon,” says one of the administrative workers. Day by day, this belief is reinforced by the increase in the number of injured, which generates fear among many, at least among administrative workers who suffer from weak protection measures, as they say.

Yesterday, the hospital administration issued a brief statement in which it listed the measures it was taking against Corona, so it began with “protective clothing for the medical and nursing team, distributing masks to administrative workers and installing a device to take the temperature of the employee upon admission (…) “, and he reached the launch of” periodic campaigns »Mandatory and free organization of workers in their departments for the early detection of hidden injuries and the performance of free pcr controls to the workers suspected of being injured (…). ”More than that, the administration revealed that, based on data from the Special Commission for monitoring employees who were in contact and injured at their homes,“ it was found that the Most of the injured workers had received the infection from the community abroad, as they transmitted the infection to their colleagues while they were at work, despite all the security measures taken. “

So far the hospital administration statement ends and the workers’ accounts of what is happening inside the building begin. Nurses and administrators, without exception, and although administrators are most affected by the Corona outbreak crisis in the hospital, they respond to the “official” statement, article by article, of “the muzzle that they distributed for two consecutive months and then cut “, says one of the workers, indicating that in the recent period they distributed cloth masks” He will be the guest. ” They complain about the weak protection measures, especially within the administrative departments, even in the most basic rights which are the masks and sterilizers. Since the situation worsened, these authorities demanded the adoption of a rotation system, as recommended by the Cabinet’s virus monitoring committee, to reduce infections. However, what happened is that “the administration has turned its ears to the printing,” according to one of them. Furthermore, “when an employee is a suspect, he is examined by the pcr, but the irony is that he remains at his job until the result is issued, and when it is issued a decision is made, contrary to what the management says in the statement that sends the suspects to their homes until the result is issued.

Simple things that the workers there miss, but that today are more than urgent, such as, for example, hand sanitizers (which were lost in some doors), soap and tissues in the bathrooms and sterilization of offices. This happens as the general director of the hospital, Firas Abyad, tweets every day about the situation in the country with Corona. Sometimes he is happy, and sometimes he does not sleep at night due to the severity of his sadness, while the Crown “lingers” among the employees!

In the end, the management discovered that some of the workers were infected abroad and passed the infection to their colleagues. And while this reality can be accepted, and this is a strong possibility, what prevents the administration from realizing this matter and limiting its dissemination with the simplest possible measures?

Not far from the fear suffered by hospital workers, the Corona meter throughout the country also began to generate panic due to the high number of HIV infections, since it registered 1,850 infections, most of them local, in addition to the death of 12 wounded. With this, the total number of injured rose to 38,000, and the number of victims to 602, while the number of those in intensive care wards increased to 245, an increase of 6 cases compared to the day before yesterday.