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The first ten British doctors to die from the crown virus came from ethnic minorities. And even overall, the covid-19 population groups in the UK are very diverse. The trend is “extremely troubling,” according to Chaand Nagpaul, who heads the BMA medical association.
A runner passes street art in support of the NHS healthcare system at Hilly Fields Park in London. Photograph taken on the Easter weekend.
BAME is a British collective term for minorities, short for “black, Asian and ethnic minority”.
This also affects the health care system from within, as a large proportion of health workers are foreigners. According to the ONS statistics agency, every eighth person working in health care is not British, and in the London area, the proportion is almost one in four.
A striking example was when 19-year-old Prime Minister Boris Johnson thanked the nurses who cared for him and specifically mentioned Jenny McGee and Luis Pitarma, from New Zealand and Portugal, respectively.
The differences have been explained by many different aspects, such as cultural variations in how you socialize within the family and language bias makes it more difficult to communicate with viral information. But in a statement made by MPs from the opposition Labor Party, it is also mentioned that non-British health workers are used to receiving worse treatment in the workplace. “It has been argued that such differences mean that BAME physicians do not complain so quickly about inadequate protective equipment and thus expose themselves to risks,” the politicians write.
“Tragically, there is a disproportionately high number in the NHS (British health system) that has killed people who have come to start a new life here,” Health Minister Matt Hancock recently said at a press conference.
