Five more doctors in Italy have lost their lives from coronavirus.
13 doctors have now died with more than 2,600 health workers infected in the country.
Three fatalities were named as Giuseppe Finzi, a hospital doctor in Cremona, Antonino Buttafuoco, a general practitioner in Bergamo, and Luigi Ablondi, former general manager of Crema hospital.
Another two doctors had died from the virus, according to the Italian national federation of doctors guilds.
2,629 health workers tested positive for coronavirus in Italy, and that’s 8.3% of the country’s total cases.
There has been increasing concerns about frontliners’ safety as they come into regular contacts with patients.
Dr. Luigi Ablondi, 66, passed away at the Cremasco hospital, where he had worked for 11 years.
Dr. Buttafuoco also died at the age of 66 as he was unable to overcome the symptoms of coronavirus.
Dr. Giuseppe Finzi, who worked at University Hospital of Parma, passed away at the age of 62, according to local media.
It was then announced that GP Luigi Frusciante, a GP in Sagnino, and Giuseppe Lanati, a pneumologist in Sant’Anna hospital, had died.
Both Frusciante, 71, and Lanati, 73, had come out of retirement but decided to assist their community.
According to reports last week, doctors Franco Galli and Raffaela Giura died of the virus.
The figures on infected frontliners were released by the Gimbe foundation which said the number of infected healthcare workers showed that protection equipment and procedures for medics were ‘still inadequate.’
The foundation’s president, Nino Cartabellotta, said to Italian media that “8.3 per cent is more than double the percentage of the Chinese cohort.”
Cartabellota urged: “No more talking: adequately protect those who must protect us.”
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