Ecuador doctors protest crisis as patients bring own meds to surgery

QUITO — Dozens of doctors, nurses and patients protested Wednesday outside a hospital in Ecuador’s capital, expressing outrage at a health care system so overstretched that people undergoing surgery bring their own syringes and medication. One big source of anger is that last week the health ministry announced an unspecified number of dismissals from the state health care system, arguing that it needed to “optimize resources” after detecting cases of suspected overstaffing. The Ecuadoran Medical Federation, a doctors’ association, said as many as 1,200 doctors, nurses and administrative staffers were let go. The association vowed to hold nationwide protests against […]... Keep on reading: Ecuador doctors protest crisis as patients bring own meds to surgery

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