The highest Spanish health authority regrets the sexist response



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Nurses in Spain are furious at the country’s emergency manager, the outward face of authorities during the pandemic, after he dropped a sexist fanatic on infectious nurses. Now he apologizes.

Spain’s head of emergencies, who has been given a public role similar to Anders Tegnell in Sweden, has had to apologize after engaging in sexist jokes in an interview. Bank of photographs of nurses in Spain.Image: Bernat Armangué / AP / TT

Fernando Simón, head of Emergency in Spain, participated in an interview with the famous professional climber brothers Eneko and Iker Pou that was broadcast on YouTube last week. There they asked him if he prefers infectious diseases (sick) or infectious nurses (nurses).

Simon laughed before answering that “he doesn’t ask (the nurses) if they are contagious or not, it only shows a few days later.”

Primitive and sexist, the Spanish Association of Nurses has condemned everything as.

“Nurses have been fighting for decades to get rid of chauvinistic notions and stereotypes,” she said.

The Spanish government also demanded an apology from the head of emergency care.

As in many other countries, the country’s health authorities hold daily press conferences on the coronavirus and are usually led by Fernando Simón, with a free tone. On Tuesday, he began by apologizing to anyone who was offended by what he said:

– The truth is that I feel very bad because all these years I have tried to get rid of those learned reflexes and ways of speaking, which have nothing to do with my way of thinking. I still have a lot to learn.

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