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Health Workers in Wuhan Under Growing Risk as Medical Supplies Run Low

Joyce Huang

   Hospitals in and around the center of China's coronavirus outbreak in
   Wuhan say they are running so low on medical supplies that doctors and
   nurses have been asked to wear substandard masks or diapers so that
   they wouldn't have to change protective suits so frequently.

   That has put the health of many of the country's frontline medical care
   providers at great risk.

   "Due to undersupply of protective suits, many of our doctors here have
   to share one suit. Some of them even have to wear diapers so that they
   don't have to change the suits so frequently for fear of running out of
   them," a staff surnamed Xiao at Wuhan Puren Hospital told VOA on
   Monday.

   "We face a terrible shortage of protective suits," she added.

   Shortage of medical supplies

   The hospital in Hubei province is in desperate need of 5,000 protective
   goggles, 20,000 N95 masks and as many protective suits as possible as
   it consumes 1,000 goggles and up to 3,000 masks a day, according to
   Xiao.

   It is one of some 24 hospitals which have formally asked for donations
   of medical supplies from the general public including N95 and surgical
   masks, protective suits and hand sanitizers.

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