Minayo Maria Cecília de Souza, Freire Neyson Pinheiro
Departamento de Estudos sobre Violência e Saúde Jorge Careli, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil,
Conselho Federal de Enfermagem, Brasília, DF, Brazil.
Cien Saude Colet. 2020 Sep;25(9):3555-3556. doi: 10.1590/1413-81232020259.13742020. Epub 2020 Aug 28.
We live in a global pandemic unprecedented in our generation. These are challenging times for healthcare workers. We are all in the same storm and join the same collective effort against COVID-19. However, we are not in the same boat. Inequality determines how each category of the health workforce is affected by the new coronavirus in Brazil. Exposed to the disease on the frontlines, nursing technicians and assistants suffer disproportionately the dire effects of the pandemic. More than 1.3 million technicians and almost 420 thousand nursing assistants provide essential care in health units and do not have the assistance and financial backing to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 on themselves and their families. Eight in every ten of these professionals are women, who are providers and also assume, in most cases, the role of primary caregivers for children, older adults, and the sick in their families. Low wages make hinder access to safer transportation and care alternatives for dependents, which is the reality of most professionals who keep the health system running throughout the pandemic.
我们生活在一代人以来前所未有的全球大流行之中。对医护人员来说，这是充满挑战的时期。我们都身处同一场风暴，共同为抗击新冠疫情而努力。然而，我们并非同舟共济。不平等决定了巴西各类卫生工作者受新冠病毒影响的程度。护理技术员和助理身处抗疫前线，承受着疫情带来的极其严重的影响，比例严重失调。超过130万技术员和近42万护理助理在卫生机构提供基本护理服务，却没有得到援助和资金支持来减轻新冠疫情对他们自身及其家人的影响。这些专业人员中十分之八是女性，她们既是提供者，在大多数情况下还承担着家庭中儿童、老年人和病人主要照料者的角色。低工资使得她们难以获得更安全的交通方式以及为家属提供护理的其他选择，这是大多数在疫情期间维持卫生系统运转的专业人员的现实状况。
