• Covid.The Nursing Council denounces "sexist and denigrating comments" by Fernando Simón against nurses

The Popular Parliamentary Group has registered this Monday a complaint letter in the Observatory of the Image of Women, dependent on the

Ministry of Equality,

in which it denounces the sexist and humiliating comments made by the director of the Center for Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies (CCAES), Fernando Simón, against the group of nurses.

In said letter, prompted by the GPP spokesperson, Cuca Gamarra, and the deputy spokesperson for the Group's management and head of Equality,

Marga Prohens, it

is emphasized that, according to the principles of said Observatory, content will be considered to be "sexist or discriminatory", among other causes, "in case of ridiculing, underestimating or presenting women in any kind of professional activity in a vexatious way."

Simón's "sexist and humiliating" comments against the nurses, denounced by the GPP, were produced in an

online

interview

collected on the

Pou

brothers' YouTube channel

.

In it, they asked him if he liked "infectious diseases or infectious nurses."

"Fernando, there has been one thing that has not been very clear to us when you started with this question. It has not been very clear to us if you liked infectious diseases or infectious nurses", they asked him, to which Simón, as he recalls the PP, answered that "they did not ask them if they were infectious or not, that was seen a few days later."

"Nursing professionals have spent decades fighting against macho and sexist stereotypes that denigrate them, not only professionally, but as women. Not in vain, on December 27, 2017, the Institute for Women and Equal Opportunities published a statement categorically rejecting any objectification of Health professionals in audiovisual media, "the 'popular' say in the letter.

Parliamentary disapproval

In relation to Simón's comments, the General Nursing Council denounced this Sunday in a statement that this type of comments, jokes and jokes are an "attack against the dignity of women and against the dignity of an essential health profession", to While they demanded "immediate apologies" and showed their willingness to launch a campaign to ask Parliament for the public disapproval of Simón and ask the Government for his immediate dismissal.

In said statement, the Nursing Council stressed that, being the Government spokesperson in the management of the pandemic,

Simón

has a continuous and constant presence in all the media and is "maximum relevance" public at this time.

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