US EditionEcuador Doctors Protest Crisis as Patients Bring Own Meds to Surgery
- Dozens of doctors, nurses, and patients protested outside a hospital in Ecuador's capital over a healthcare system crisis where surgery patients bring their own medicine and syringes.
- The Health Ministry announced dismissals from the state healthcare system last week to "optimize resources" after suspecting overstaffing.
- The Ecuadoran Medical Federation reported that up to 1,200 doctors, nurses, and administrative staff were dismissed from the healthcare system.
- Juan Barriga, head of trauma at Pablo Arturo Suarez Hospital, said patients must purchase supplies for surgeries and there are long waiting lists.
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They go out to the streets to denounce the structural crisis that the public system is going through, the lack of inputs and the mass layoffs.
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A group of doctors and patients protested Wednesday on the outskirts of a hospital in Quito over the crisis facing Ecuador’s state health system amid recent dismissals and complaints about lack of medication.
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