BY AGENCY REPORTER
Health workers on Friday booed the Spanish prime minister and threw gloves at him as he visited the Madrid hospital where a nurse with Ebola is being treated amid a claim that they were stressed up.
The nurses gathered around Mariano Rajoy’s motorcade at the end of his visit to the Carlos III hospital to protest at the government’s handling of the case of Teresa Romero. [eap_ad_1] The nurse is the first person to have contracted Ebola outside of Africa, after becoming infected by a Spanish priest repatriated from Africa with the disease as she treated him at the Carlos III Hospital.
The protest came amid reports that health workers were working under stressful conditions.
One of the nurses caring for Mrs. Romero, Charly Manuel Torres, told AFP: “There are fewer workers signing up to help by providing voluntary extra cover at the hospital.
“We are stressed up. We are working under a lot of pressure.”
Health workers’ unions have also described the protective equipment provided for them as substandard.
According to other reports, medical workers have been calling in sick with some even formally resigning from their posts.
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