Covid: Fnopi, 109 thousand nurses infected and 87 dead

Rome, May 12 (beraking latest news Salute) – Since the beginning of the pandemic “109 thousand nurses have been infected in the workplace and, up to April, 87 have died from Covid. Nurses are the category of health personnel most infected by Sars-Cov-2: obviously , above all for the very high level of proximity with the sick who never leave alone “. This was reported by Fnopi (National Federation of Nursing Professions Orders) on the occasion of the World Nurses Day, in a report in which the data of Inail were processed.

“With the appearance of vaccines (nurses were the first health personnel to be vaccinated), – highlights Fnopi – there is a decline in infections: a fact that, on the one hand, is positive, given the current lack of organic in health services, on the other hand, it is obviously organic for the lower number of subjects involved in the infection and, therefore, with fewer personal consequences and lower risks for patients to whom they cannot help being close “.

“As regards the deaths of nurses, there is a greater number in particular (but not only) in the Regions subject to the first phase of the pandemic, when, that is, when there were not enough personal protective equipment to guarantee the safety of the operators involved 24 hours a day on the front line – the nurses continue – And from the data it is immediately evident, in relation to the general mortality from Covid, that the mortality of nurses at work follows the trend of that of cases recorded in the population, in particular with peaks in both cases in April and November 2020 “.