"Nursing was always an overworked profession, and this pandemic has just made things worse," said Bossan, 41. Nurses deal directly with patients, with the virus, we're on the front lines of the war. Around 18,000 nurses in Brazil have been infected with COVID-19, and at least 181 have died -- among the highest numbers in the world, according to the International Council of Nurses. When the initial flood of cases hit Brazil's hospitals, health care workers faced shortages of protective equipment and inadequate training on dealing with the new virus, she said. One of them, 56-year-old Eliane Lima, thanked her health care team from behind her oxygen mask.

Source: Bangkok Post June 11, 2020 00:21 UTC