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Colombia medical personnel walks out ahead of Duque's impending coronavirus catastrophe
by Adriaan Alsema April 10, 2020
Colombia’s medical personnel are rebelling over life-threatening working conditions as the coronavirus pandemic puts the country’s healthcare system in the first stage of collapse.
The healthcare system has begun falling apart even before the major outbreak of the virus due to gross mismanagement by the government of President Ivan Duque and his predecessors.
Doctors have resigned while others embark on protests as tensions between medical personnel and the authorities has come to a boil.
Years-long corruption and mismanagement has brought tensions between the National Health Institute (INS), health intermediaries and hospitals to boiling point, triggering the resignations by doctors and aggravating the crisis that has been grossly underestimated by President Ivan Duque.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/sick-of-duque-colombia-medical-personnel-walk-out-ahead-of-impending-coronavirus-catastrophe/