Health workers across Spain observed two minutes of silence in honor of all their colleagues who have died since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country.
Across the country health professionals stood silently in front of hospitals, care homes and health centers in silence. On social media, videos and photos of the vigils were posted along with the hashtags #NiUnFacultativoMenos (Not one professional less) or #UnSilencioYUnaPalabra (One silence and one word).
The initiative was first launched by the Medical Union Confederation (CESM) to honor the “almost 50 colleagues that have lost their lives in this fight against the coronavirus,” the Union said in a statement on Thursday, “professionals who put their jobs in front of their safety and fought for the health of their patients, even above their own.”
So far, 50,088 health workers have been infected with the virus in the country, according to Spain’s Health Ministry on Thursday. 48 doctors have died according to the General Council of Official Medical Colleges, the Spanish doctors’ professional body (CGCOM) earlier this week. The Spanish government has not given an official figure on the number of deaths among health workers.
