On the island of funen has Ulrich Dethlef Húnfjörð Jørgensen done something extra to avoid being a part of a corona-smittekæde.
When he trades in the local Net, takes place in the full body suit and gas mask and rubber gloves.
As B. T. has described, he looks like a supervillain from a fremtidsfilm, but Jørgensen has no fine feelings:
“I really think you should take this extraordinary situation seriously,” he says.
At the country’s hospitals, doctors, nurses and other health care providers nervous about the so-called protective equipment (ppe) slips up. There is scarcity.
on Friday, called the world health Organization, the WHO, the lack of protective equipment such as mundbind an acute threat to efforts to save lives during corona outbreak.
Overalls, masks, visors and håndsprit.
low-Tech and relatively cheap products. Easy to prepare and even with a long shelf-life.
It seems close to inconceivable that we in Denmark are experiencing a lack of these things, which are absolutely essential for our health-care workers at hospitals and other places where the frontline in the ongoing fight against the spread of coronaviruses takes place.
It is perhaps to understand that an extraordinary event as the global pandemic could trigger a pressure on the stocks, but the truth is, that already before the crisis, there was a scarcity of protective equipment in several places in the health service.
It is a big rudeness towards the people we ask to stand in the front line. They must, of course, as a minimum, be protected in the best way possible.
More sites are health care workers already infected, which hardly can be avoided. The other day lit the Bispebjerg Hospital in Copenhagen, that the eight employees are confirmed positive for coronavirus.
It goes without saying that it is essential for the handling of the processing, that not too many health workforce are infected.
the Responsibility for preparedness – including for protective equipment in the health service – is shared. The municipalities and the regions, sits with the planning and operational responsibility, while the national board of Health and the Danish medicines agency supervises and keeps an eye on events that may affect the very basis of planning.
It suggests that the national board of Health general underestimation of coronavirus’ took in Denmark, has rubbed off on the assessment of the procurement of protective equipment.
this is Why we at the rear of the tray.
Now various initiatives to address the lack put in the work. The Danish medicines agency has launched the campaign ”Denmark will assist the uk”, where authorities, businesses and others can join in if they have equipment in the surplus or ideas to raise more.
at the request of the Danish medicines agency to the national Association of Local authorities of five municipalities in the country, spread over the regions, given the task to ensure that municipal functions are not run out of protective equipment.
the Doctors and nurses do not need to wear rumfartslignende suits as Jørgensen from the Danish island of Funen. But we owe it to them, that they can go to work in the certainty that the basic medical equipment to protect them, is out of stock.
