With a shovel
A total of four regional chiefs of nursing assigned to the Táchira State Health Corporation have resigned in three months, due to labor exploitation and threats from health managers in hospital centers.
Anggy Polanco // Correspondent lapatilla.com
That is why this department, essential to carry out patient care processes in the entity’s public health network, is not making progress.
This was announced by Deicy Mora, national delegate of the College of Nursing Graduates, who explained that it is not enough that the staff is poorly paid, but that they are also receiving threats and psychological abuse from the heads of the nursing department itself.
He recalled that a group of intensivists received threats from the head nurse of the Central Hospital of San Cristóbal, who resorted to a prosecutor from the Public Ministry, who threatened to imprison them from 6 to 12 years for not treating a patient who was already being cared for.
“Apart from that, today we had a press conference to publicize this and for all the personnel to express themselves in the media, but various security forces, the National Police, the State Police and the Sebin, and all the world withdrew, because there is panic and terror due to psychological abuse,” Mora explained.
He pointed out that despite the fact that they have requested meetings with the director of the Central Hospital and head of Corposalud for six months, to date they have not received a response.
The entity’s nursing union warns that if the persecution continues, staff resignations will increase.
Orfelia Varela, a patient with 34 years of service at the Central Hospital of San Cristóbal, stated that in this hospital there is a deficit of 1,200 nursing professionals.
“It is unfortunate because ICU nursing professionals are working with work overload. I myself work with six patients and two colleagues in a 12-hour shift; a nurse to care for 6 users”, she recounted.
