Corona ... The death of a pregnant doctor gives rise to anger and shock in Algeria

Algeria experienced anger over the death of a pregnant doctor due to infection with the emerging coronavirus (Covid-19), while the Ministry of Health announced an investigation into the circumstances of the incident.

On Friday, the municipality of Ain El Kabira, in the governorate of Setif (east), attended the funeral of Dr. Wafaa Boudisa, pregnant in the eighth month, after her death from the Corona virus.

Bodysa, 28, was working in Ras Al-Wadi Hospital in the Borj Bou Arreridj Province in the east of the country.

Shock, lamentations,
and the news of the death of Doctor Boudissah was a shock that appeared on social media, as citizens expressed their sympathy for the deceased and their anger at the incident.

The Algerian novelist Wassini Al-Araj - on his Facebook page - published a lament on the deceased, under the title "Those who killed you, they all killed us ... the tragedy of Doctor Bodisa".

Wasini said in lamentation: With a painful heart, I write about you, simple citizenship as millions, had it not been for the unjust death, no one would have mentioned it.

He added: I write about one of thousands of female doctors, doctors, nurses, paramedics and paramedics who die daily in silence while performing their daily duty.

And Abizaid: They face the tragedy of the Corona virus patiently, sometimes without masks or real medical masks, while legions of ignorance and mob fight over dumplings (a kind of Ramadan candy) and Eid clothes, and flock to the markets.

He inherited it by saying: Wafa, I cry for you this evening, and you are unjustly dying, and you could have been saved with a little understanding of your health.

Criticism and asked,
on his part, addressed the writer Abdel-Razzaq Boukaba - via his Facebook page - President Abdel Majid Taboun, saying: A day when a doctor loses her life and her fetus, it is worth to draw a national day for the doctor.

In turn, the media criticized Soumia Mitich through Facebook, the hospital administration where she was working, saying: an Algerian doctor killed by bureaucracy and mismanagement in our miserable departments, before being killed by her eighth month-old fetus.

The pioneers of the communication sites exchanged an electronic conversation with Bodice with her colleagues, in which she revealed that the work doctor - despite the appearance of a positive examination result (infected with the virus) - refused to be quarantined.

The doctor said, according to what was reported in the current conversation: I am pregnant in the eighth month, and they did not dismiss me. I did the examination twice and the result is positive.

"By the way ... the first one who refused to give me leave is a work doctor, and there is no life for someone calling."

For his part, Lakhdar Bin Khallaf, deputy in the National People's Assembly for the Justice and Development Front (Islamist opposition), called for the Ministry of Health to open an investigation into the circumstances of the doctor’s death.

An investigation was opened,
and after that, the Minister of Health, Abd al-Rahman bin Bouzid, announced on Friday evening that an investigation had been opened into the case of the doctor's death.

The Minister - in a statement to the newspaper "Al-Khobar" - expressed his apology for what happened, and said: I offer my family's role, and ordered the opening of an investigation that will not be judicial but internal administrative, to know the circumstances of the death.

He added: I commissioned the Inspector General of the Ministry of Health to conduct the investigation and find out the motive that made the doctor work despite she was pregnant, knowing that the instructions in this framework are clear to release pregnant women from work.

According to the minister: If it is confirmed that she has been forced to work, the hospital director, as well as her line manager, will be punished.

On the other hand, the management of Ras El-Wadi Hospital in Bordj Bou Arreridj said that the doctor was confirmed to be infected with Corona virus on May 12 by the Pasteur Institute (government), and passed away on Friday.

The department added in a statement that the doctor was working in Ras Al-Wadi Hospital in a rotating system, working two days and two days, due to the distance from her residence to work.

And she added that the late was working in the emergency surgical department (department) at her request, despite the administration’s suggestion that she should change her workplace to the pediatric or neonatal interest.

The hospital administration added that the doctor did not deal with patients with the Corona virus, because the hospital does not have an interest of his own, and her life cannot be endangered in accordance with the laws in force.

There are no official statistics on the number of corona deaths among health workers in Algeria.

On March 30, an Algerian doctor named Ahmed Mehdi died from a coronavirus infection, and he was working at the "France Fanon" government hospital in Blida, south of the capital, according to the hospital administration.

As of Friday evening, Algeria had 6,629 confirmed cases of the Corona virus, of whom 536 had died and 3,271 people had recovered.