“You had no choice.”Russia is hailing its medical workers as heroes, their photographs plastered on billboards and their stories glamorised on state TV. Russia’s health minister, Mikhail Murashko, said Wednesday that 400 Russian hospitals had suffered outbreaks of the coronavirus. But Russian health workers are also at the mercy of a convoluted, depersonalised and unforgiving bureaucracy that increasingly appears outmatched by the pandemic. “And they keep getting contradictory orders.”The contradictions in Russia’s coronavirus response start in the Kremlin. Wards on the second floor were set aside for sick medical workers, but it was not enough.

Source: bd News24 May 14, 2020 17:03 UTC