Medical workers in Mexico face harassment and threats as coronavirus cases spread.
More than 500 health workers have already been infected, authorities say, and at least nine have died. Outbreaks have been reported in at least four public hospitals — in Tijuana, near Mexico City, in San José del Cabo and in Monclova, in the northern state of Coahuila.
“We are not enemies. … People should know that just because we are nurses that is not to say that we are contaminated.” Along with outrage, the assaults on health workers have prompted considerable national soul-searching about the collective mentality behind such misguided behavior. In Mexico City, unions representing transit workers and health employees this week launched a special bus service for employees at seven public hospitals.
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