Russian nurses being treated in hospital for coronavirus have spoken out about PPE shortages in the country despite fears they might be punished.
In phone interviews with BBC News in Astrakhan, Russia, the medics said they were afraid to speak publicly and did not give out their names.
Three Russian frontline health care workers mysteriously fell out of hospital windows over the past two weeks, with two dead and one still being treated in ICU.
Despite her fears, one woman, a nurse, told BBC News: “I’ve got a cough, a temperature. I’m short of breath. Everything is burning inside.” The nurse thinks she was infected at work due to the PPE shortage. “We were admitting patients and we had no masks,” she said. “They said it was one mask for
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