Beethoven is for. Beethoven is for. Beethoven is for everyone. Beethoven 2020. The 50th anniversary here on d w. Thank. You. Theyre on the front lines of the Coronavirus CrisisHealth Care Workers testing the limits of human insurance even making the ultimate sacrifice in the new rigorous primary. And in my wildest dreams i never imagined. How hard it would be. After the struggle to contain the pandemic what will it mean for Health Care Systems and the people who run them. Welcome to this coverage 19 special on robots in berlin is good to have you with us the burden of tackling a Global Health crisis has fallen more heavily on the shoulders of one group than any other the worlds Health Care Workers are dealing with death and disease on a daily basis risking their own health at the same time and not always with the level of protection that they need. For growth he waved goodbye to his colleagues at the end of his shift alleviate lebovitz has been a nurse for 30 years. He works in one of the largest hospitals in paris the operator. Right in the city center level which looks after up to 12 patients a day on the geriatric ward his net income is 1735. 00 euros per month for months now theres been virtually no time at all to pause for a break. If you. Can sort also obvious that im the only one working at my station and have to do everything myself or doctors and other nurses but theres a lot to do i hardly get a break i barely have enough time for a cup of coffee you know afternoon to flip on walk up the soup. Hes witnessed how the coronavirus pandemic pushed the French Health care system to the brink there were dramatic scenes of. Hospitals with shortages of all types of supplies ventilators personal protective equipment masks medical stuff worked courageously pushing themselves to sheer exhaustion. Many hospital workers became sick themselves and some even died the system nearly collapsed in need were not prepared for such a wave of pandemic not at this intensity or duration with. A levy a level which agrees after budget cuts and reforms french hospitals were left with insufficient emergency room capacity and not enough stuff doctors and nurses have to work around the clock. When you talk over 1000 crisis made working conditions even worse. Im not the only one all of us notice just how badly things in france of deterioration of. The response every night the french have gone out onto their balconies to applaud medical workers a movement that spread across the country during the stringent lockdown musical performances mobilize entire neighborhoods people were conscious of the crisis playing out from the hospitals. French Prime MinisterEmmanuel Mccall midget. Budget cuts have been too drastic administration to sluggish to react staff to poorly paid. C g t the influential Health Care Workers you and is calling for raises of at least 300 euros for the retirement age to be lowered to 55. To get. More Funding Resources and personnel were not above all else we need higher wages. So hes off to protest even though the french government has just promised to increase wages considerably and reform the health care system. Well lets speak to Professor James buchan hes editor in chief of the publication Human Resources for health and speaks to us from edinburgh professor buck and this really has been a tough time for healthcare workers even beyond the sheer volume of patients theyre having to deal with hasnt it. Very much so. Expose any weaknesses in how systems and Health Work Force numbers and deploy. Were coming out of the initial impact of. Course problems that existed before good impact. And the sort of problems weve been seeing also the Health Implications for the workers themselves some countries doing a better job of protecting their workers than others weve seen that in the figures have been way. We have the Health Workers are at the front line they are high risk of exposure the International Council nurses which is done some good work at home allies in the variation in infection rates suggests one of ridge about 7 percent of nurses have been affected across the front 30 countries. Or without varies from below one percent in secure poor up to about 20 percent in spain and in the countries that are on the wrong side of those numbers have anything in common is a case of money of p. P. A. Is a case of understaffing to reno i think there are several contributory factors its always difficult to isolate one and uses it but if youre willing to see of p. V. Was a big problem and continues to be a problem in some countries us heightened risk of exposure where there are being shortages in stuff individuals are there to work close to patients for longer for longer periods of time another has also been heightening the risk of exposure what about Health Systems themselves for seen them performing to varying different degrees around the world all that particular models of Health System that have shown themselves to be effective in a pandemic like this. I dont think a specific form or model guarantees success but i think you can point to systems which are of a localized flexible will it see to respond to differential impact in different parts of the country just being one which is better suited top dont overly centralized one i think we will see this become even more of an issue i spikes could occur locally within countries is the ability to respond quickly locally there will be what is required trying to deal with this next phase and for the types of systems where it may be hasnt worked as well as it could have is there a positive outlook because presumably if youve been underfunding your system thus far youre not now financially in a better position to do it given the effect of coronavirus on economies kudos to expose the gaps in Health Systems and whole systems funday i know you see the risk know is that the countries that have been worst hit by a coup are those who also need to find more resources to meet goods like economic damage and theres a double whammy there high impact of cuckoos most negative impact on the economy. Professor hawking has been fascinating talking to you thanks for your time thats Professor James burke and editor in chief of Human Resources to help thank you very much and now is a part of the program where you get to ask the questions as our science correspondent derrick williams. Can covert 19 cause bad breath. This can be caused by a wide range of different factors from inadequate dental hygiene to to a more serious underlying condition but the w. H. O. Doesnt list it as a center for covert 19 however there is an interesting connection between bad breath and the virus mouthwash sales have spiked during the pandemic which i guess was to be expected i mean plenty of people probably hope that using mouth wash is regularly will have a preventative effect even though there is currently no evidence that garbling with them protects you either that or or breathing into a mask all the time has made people hyper aware of how their own breath smells. Can you catch coded 19 from drinking unfiltered tap water. Theres no evidence you can get cove at 19 from drinking treated water and the risk of transmission through water in general even untreated wastewater appears to be very low even when the virus is genetic material can be detected in untreated water in most cases its probably not viable thats because sars cove too is whats called an envelop virus which means it has a pretty fragile membrane that doesnt really protect it for very long outside the body so this is standard treatment methods used in motorists municipal Drinking Water systems like like filtration and disinfection should inactivated just like they do other pathogens if you dont have access to safe treated water then then the standard precautions. That you tape like like boiling your Drinking Water should also kill any source code to. Why does cambodia have no deaths from coated 19. As of this morning at least there have still been only around 140 cases of covert 19 reported in cambodia and not a single official death no with a record like that theres of course a lot of speculation the country is under reporting none of it confirmed but if the official numbers are accurate then then cambodia has has a remarkable record so far as does neighboring vietnam both countries have been praised by the w. H. O. For for how they detected and responded to new cases at a very early stage of the pandemic with extensive Contact Tracing travel restrictions and quarantines as early as january time when when most other countries werent willing to even consider them at the time those measures were viewed as as extreme but retrospective lay they look like something that that everyone should have been doing. As a science correspondent Derek Williams now its certainly proven that with during the coronavirus pandemic but many Health Care Workers remain some of the least well paid in their societies resistance to that fact is growing not least in spain around 10000. 00 nurses stated demonstration on monday against that level of pay and temporary contracts and they made that point with a moving rendition of the eightys pop song. Which translates as i will resist enjoy the music this is been the cover 1000. 00 special thanks for joining us. Mobility in the age of corona as the pandemic changed the way we move was the safest way for us to get from point a to point b. By bike it seems trained folks and has the joy been taken out of transportation or can it still be fun on the road during hard times red. Chillies. Come. To the business hes a. Fan of braman still my predication nothing trounced the flaccid club. Just a definitely out having lost. Newcomer. Steam. 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