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By Cassandra Garrison MEXICO CITY, April 7 (Reuters) - Mexico's private healthcare personnel are protesting being left out of the government's COVID-19 vaccine rollout, just as the country braces for a potential third wave of infections. Angered by what they see as discrimination by a government prioritizing the public sector, hundreds of health workers that had gathered outside a medical school last week hoping to get inoculated ended up chanting "we want the vaccine." About 500 of the protesters eventually got their wish that day. "We realized we weren't even considered," said David Berrone...

About 500 of the protesters eventually got their wish that day. “We realized we weren’t even considered,” said David Berrones, a Mexico City ophthalmologist who last month launched an informal census of medical professionals awaiting a jab. The government said it did include private front-line healthcare workers in its initial vaccination plans, but that efforts to reach all of them were complicated by unreliable staff registers. Mexico’s doctors have paid a heavy price in the crisis. At least 3,679 medical staff have died in the pandemic that has so far killed more than 200,000 peopl...