Coronavirussen has hit Italy hard in recent weeks, where several thousand people have lost their lives.
And it is certainly not only the patients, who are deceased. It is also doctors and nurses.
Coronavirussen have thus cost the lives of 80 doctors and 21 nurses life since February. It writes Sky News.
the Media adding that the two nurse has taken their own life in the same period.
In Italy, more than 12,000 persons from the health care been tested positive for the dreaded virus.
In a hospital in the city of Brescia has over 300 employees, for example, become infected.
Professor Francesco Castelli has told Sky News the psychological impact it can have on the staff, that so many are deceased:
“You ask all the time to each other about who the next will be. Of course, it is psychologically disturbing, because you are both colleagues and friends.”
Francesco Castelli adds, that it is feared that the contagion of its nearest:
“You can live for a whole month, where you are isolated, because we are all afraid of infecting our closest.”
Several doctors in Italy have said that coronavirussen hit health care like a bolt of lightning from a clear sky.
Over one million people are infected with the coronavirus worldwide.
