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For them, the applause of each day. Because it is the health professionals who are waging the face-to-face battle against the new enemy. The coronavirus's proven ability to expand forces them to work against the clock, in overflow conditions, doubling turns, and not always with sufficient shields. They leave their skin caring for the sick and also every day they leave their souls thinking about their own children: Who do we leave them with? "The grandparents can no longer take care of them because they are people at risk and there are also no babysitters willing to work in the home of health personnel," explains Angela Hernández Puente, deputy secretary general of the Association of Doctors and Higher Graduates of Madrid (Amyts).

This is reflected in the tweet of a desperate nurse: "When no babysitter wants to take care of your daughters because you are a nurse and they are afraid. When you have to go to work every day and do not know what to do with the girls. Has anyone contemplated a similar situation? Well that's happening to me. "

The fear created by the pandemic is causing many people who are initially interested and even accept the job to finally back down when they know they are health professionals.

To give voice to this cry, the Covid-19 Volunteers platform has started a campaign on their twitter profile : "We know that many municipalities read us. That is why we ask them to enable nurseries or schools so that the children of health workers who do it they need to be cared for during their parents' guards. They give everything for us, help them! "

It is precisely the help that health professionals have in Italy, "where they have the possibility of leaving their children in specific centers while they work. None here. It is a continuous complaint," says Hernández. Above all, from divorced parents, single-parent families or those couples in which both work in a hospital or health center .

This reality is also echoed by the Satse Nursing Union , which demands that "the municipalities, public administrations, be in charge of creating job exchanges through which to hire people who can dedicate themselves to serving the best possible boys and girls of nurses and nurses. This contract would fall to the coffers of the Consistory , which would provide this service to health professionals in your municipality interested, taking into account their special current working circumstances. "

Specifically, the Catalan nurses union has asked the Ministry of Health to enable classrooms to care for their children. During this epidemic, they explain, they are "giving more than 100%, doubling shifts and giving up vacations and permits to guarantee the best possible assistance." Situation incompatible with the care of their children that "requires public assistance".

In the absence of such an initiative, the Official College of Physicians of La Rioja has organized a pool of people willing to care for the children of doctors (https://www.medicosrioja.com/actuas-del-comlr-ante -the-coronavirus /). "The situation is not favorable. At the moment, there are many professionals who agree on schedules, double shifts and have to be available," emphasizes Inmaculada Martínez Torre, the president of this corporation. "Just as hotels have been set up to spend the night outside their homes and thus avoid contagion among their families, it is also necessary to take into account the care of their children while they work."

Although the creation and assumption of the cost of this initiative by public bodies would be the ideal response for these professionals, other measures are proposed such as the one proposed by Silvia Durán, Amyts delegate coordinator : "Our legal advisory has already made several requests standards addressed to managers of different medical centers and hospitals to request that some doctors be able to telework. " This would be the case, for example, of family doctors monitoring patients by telephone and, in hospitals, psychiatrists could also continue to care for their patients from their homes.

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