Neighbors support nurses and doctors who daily fight to combat the coronavirus in Mexico
Neighbors of a public hospital came out again on Monday to their balconies and windows to acknowledge with applause, shouts and songs the effort of doctors and nurses facing the COVID-19 pandemic in the Mexican capital.
This night, like the previous ones, from the Miguel Alemán Multifamily, its inhabitants lit the lamps of their mobile phones from the heights to sing to the health personnel of the Hospital 20 de Noviembre , from which they are barely separated by a semi-empty avenue due to the measures they keep confined to people to mitigate contagions.
"We already have a long time to do this, approximately since April 18 and it gives us great joy because it is a lot of pride for us to be doing this," Norma, a neighbor of the Multifamiliar, told Efe during tonight’s recognition.
The sound amplifiers broadcast the Hymn to Joy and the cheers and "Vivas" echoed to the staff of "November 20", a hospital of the Institute of Social Security and Services for State Workers (ISSSTE), converted to the fight against COVID-19.
Just as night falls in the Mexican capital, music begins to play from the balconies. Some songs known as "Cielito Lindo" are clearly heard up to the hospital, considered one of the largest in the city.
The tribute of the tenants has been repeated every night since last week with applause and cheers to doctors, nurses, orderlies, hospital cleaning team that stops, a part of the staff, their activities to listen to their neighbors.
The recognition of the tenants of this multifamily has been reciprocated by the hospital staff with a message placed on the access door so that everyone can observe and read it.
Around fifty people, most of them medical personnel, observed the tribute from the main entrance of the hospital and also from the upper floors.
The hospital "appreciates the support, solidarity and respect given to all the staff who work and fight every day against COVID-19 by all our neighbors, especially those of the Miguel Alemán Multifamily," the message said.
This recognition has become very important at a time when most of the information reported attacks and discriminatory treatment against health personnel in most of the country.
One of the most recent cases was the attack on a nurse in Mexico City by a couple who were arrested days later and who have been formally accused of attempted murder, a crime for which they are already incarcerated.
This Monday, the Mexican health authorities reported 83 deaths and 857 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours for a cumulative 1,434 deaths and 15,529 infections.
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