コロナと闘うスペインの医療従事者、防護用品の不足訴えデモ

【マドリードＡＦＰ＝時事】新型コロナウイルスと最前線で闘うスペインの医療従事者らが25日、首都マドリードとその周辺地域の複数の病院前に集まり、防護用品の不足に抗議した。（写真はマドリードの病院前で、医療システムの強化を訴える医療従事者ら）
　白衣や手術着を着た看護師や医師、その他の医療従事者は、「医療従事者は絶対不可欠」とのスローガンを掲げて抗議デモに参加。「私たちは武器を持たずに闘っている」「誰が医療従事者をケアするのか」「公共医療は身売りできない」などと書かれたプラカードを掲げ、２分間沈黙を続けた。
　医療従事者らは疲弊を口にし、人手不足と新型コロナウイルスの流行に対応するための防護用品の不足を訴えた。
　スペインにおける新型コロナウイルスの感染者と死者の３分の１は首都マドリードで確認されており、流行のピーク時には医療システムは崩壊寸前だった。
　デモの参加者はマドリード当局に追加スタッフ１万人の雇用継続を求めているが、当局は今年いっぱいしか保証できないとしている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/05/26-13:13）

Spanish health workers on the front line of the fight against coronavirus gathered on Monday outside hospitals in the Madrid region to rally against shortages of protective equipment.
Nurses, doctors and other workers protested in their uniforms, some in scrubs, under the slogan health workers essential.
They stood silently for two minutes at the gates of several institutions in and around the capital, holding placards and homemade signs that read we are fighting without weapons, who cares for the carers and public healthcare can't be sold.
The goal is for people to become aware of the precariousness of our jobs, said Silvia Garcia, an intensive care unit nurse who joined hundreds of others outside the Gregorio Maranon hospital.
COVID-19 only intensified a situation that we were experiencing before, she told AFP.
We need to have the means to care, said Victor Aparicio, another intensive care nurse at the same hospital.
We need to guarantee that we can rest and protect ourselves so that we can carry out our work in the best possible conditions.
Caregivers say they are exhausted and complain both about staff shortages and a lack of protective equipment to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.
One-third of all Spain's cases and deaths have been recorded in the capital, where the health system was on the verge of breaking down at the height of the crisis.
The protesters want the Madrid region to keep on the extra 10,000 staff hired to deal with the pandemic.
Officials have only offered guarantees that they will be kept on until the end of the year.