Maternity leave 8 month pregnant doctor died in Corona Algeria May 21 7:50
In Algeria, North Africa, a female doctor who was denied maternity leave and continued to work in a hospital died with a newborn baby infected with the new coronavirus. Protests have taken place at the hospital, and the director is being dismissed.
He died at the age of 28, a doctor at the hospital in eastern Algeria, Wafa Buditha.
Budisa, who was eight months pregnant and had been asked to take maternity leave, was rejected and continued to work at the hospital, but died on the 15th of this month after being infected with the new coronavirus.
It means that the baby in the tummy also died. A relative's man told local media, "She refused after applying for maternity leave many times,
and I'm very sorry that the directors of the hospital rejected her wish." Following the death of Mr. Budisa, the medical staff at the hospital are in the process of protesting to improve the working environment.
The health minister of Algeria, who saw the situation seriously, sacked the director of the hospital and instructed to investigate the reasons why maternity leave was not granted.
According to the statistics of Johns Hopkins University in the United States, 7542 people were infected with the new coronavirus in Algeria and 568 people died as of 21st.