Among dozens of patients, oxygen tubes and cardiac resuscitation devices, the anesthesiologist and intensive care doctor Tariq Amr spends his long hours, whether in the field hospital or Prince Hamzah Hospital in Amman, with nearly 80% of the intensive care beds occupied in hospitals in the Central Region, and 45% of the respirators are occupied Artificial.

While the doctor works in the normal situation between 40 and 48 hours a week, Doctor Amr works from 60 to 70 hours a week, due to the overcrowding of the intensive care units for patients, the lack of medical personnel qualified to deal with Corona patients, in addition to many injuries among the medical staff.

According to Doctor Amr, "Corona patients are not like other patients, as he needs urgent medical care more than other intensive care patients, and his medical condition can change within minutes, especially low oxygen levels."

According to doctors, the anesthesiologist or chest specialist supervises the treatment of between 15 and 20 patients with corona in the intensive care and isolation rooms of the field hospital, while he normally supervises 2 or 3 patients.

This coincides with an epidemic peak that is the most difficult that Jordan is going through, after it recorded more than 577 thousand injuries, and 6 thousand and 444 deaths, and the recorded injuries daily exceed 9 thousand injuries, and the number of deaths reaches 100 deaths in some days, and this is accompanied by problems in providing quantities. The oxygen necessary for the operation of hospitals, in light of overcrowding, according to doctors and specialists.

Great pressure on the isolation department at Al-Bashir Governmental Hospital (Al-Jazeera)

Deaths from the medical sector

The case of Doctor Amr is an example of hundreds of Jordanian doctors working to combat the Corona virus, so here is a chest doctor who works 13 hours a day in treating patients, and there is a doctor who leaves her husband and children to confront the virus, and with them an army of nurses and technicians in the fields of anesthesia and respiratory, and between them was Doctor Doaa Abu Jameh, who died after She was infected with the virus last week.

The number of deaths in the medical sector due to Corona reached 65, including 41 doctors, 18 pharmacists, and 6 nurses, according to the health unions, in addition to a number of patients from the medical staff lying on artificial respirators and in intensive care rooms.

Beds for the sick

Popularly, Jordanians talk about the difficulty of obtaining a bed to treat their patients with Corona, which puts them between two options, the most bitter of which is bitter, either going to the private sector and paying huge sums, or the patient receiving the necessary treatment by himself through oxygen devices if available, as mentioned by spokesmen for Al-Jazeera Net.

At the emergency gates of Al-Bashir Hospital, east of the capital, Amman, Yunus Al-Derawi told Al-Jazeera Net, "Hundreds of patients and companions are piling up waiting for the doctor to see them to provide them with some treatments, and Corona patients mix with kidney patients, chronic diseases, children and pregnant women."

According to a report by the National Center for Security and Crisis Management issued or yesterday, the Kingdom has witnessed during the past two weeks (12-26 March) a continuation of the increase in the number of daily injuries compared to the population by 48.5%, a number that exceeded the number of injuries in the two weeks. The rate of positivity in examinations for the same period was 18%, which is a high rate, while deaths witnessed an increase for the same period of 104%, and the 55-year-old group represented the most in the number of deaths, 84% of the total deaths, and hospital admissions increased by 41%. %.

Protesters gathered in front of Al-Salt Hospital after the oxygen failure (Al-Jazeera - Archive)

Super dangerous

Despite the seriousness of the health and epidemiological situation in the Kingdom, and the high occupancy rates in hospitals, this corresponds to low rates in the demand for taking anti-virus vaccines by Jordanians, and this is due to a number of reasons - according to specialists - most notably the loss of confidence of Jordanians in their official institutions, and skepticism about vaccines through rumors circulating Also, some people still live in denial of the existence of the virus, and lax adherence to preventive safety measures.

The Minister of State for Media Affairs, Sakhr Dudin, says that the government will provide a package of incentives for those who take the two doses of the vaccine, while adhering to health prevention measures, in order to accelerate the Kingdom's exit from this health crisis, and the return of the economic sectors to work during the coming summer.

He continues his speech to Al-Jazeera Net that the government has allowed the private sector to import vaccines, and the vaccine has received about 273,000 people as of last Thursday, and the government is seeking to vaccinate from 50 to 60,000 people per day after providing adequate quantities of vaccines, and the currently registered on the online platform are more than 780,000 Person.

Faced with these complications and the difficult health reality, the Ministry of Health is still without a minister, and the Ministry of Interior is in charge of managing health affairs, Mazen Al-Faraya, after the former Minister of Health, Nazir Obeidat, resigned from the government following the lack of oxygen in Salt Hospital, which led to the death of 7 patients.

Jordanians' turnout for taking the vaccine is still low due to rumors that warn of its danger (Al-Jazeera)

Interact on social media platforms

Facebook activist Muhammad Al-Awdat warned against listening to those who fear people will take the vaccine, so he wrote on his page saying that "death hangs over the sky of Jordan, and the cemeteries have become a daily shrine to which many go. Whoever incites people against the vaccine is a murderous criminal, and those who underestimate Corona and make people ... A murderous criminal disdains it, and whoever transmits the infection knowing that he has been infected is a murderous criminal. Do not tolerate these people. Treat them as enemies. "

As for Facebook activist Muhammad Marawan Hamza, he called on his page for an initiative to secure oxygen for needy patients and wrote that “society is now required to act, whether in light of government deficit, weak capabilities, neglect or the expansion of the pandemic, you name it and classify the situation as you want, now we are required of us. We all extend a helping hand to ourselves. This is a pure initiative of sincere and dedicated young people. "