The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has urged countries in the region to ensure that health care workers have access to the personal protective equipment (PPE) and supplies they need to care for patients affected by the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.
A release from PAHO on Tuesday noted that on the occasion of World Health Day, Director Carissa F. Etienne stressed that “shortages of the most basic protective equipment leave doctors, nurses and other frontline workers dangerously vulnerable as they care for COVID-19 patients.”
Over the last week cases of COVID-19 have doubled.