SES Urfa Branch Co-Chair Eylem Salar criticized the fact that health institutions are still not included in the scientific committee and stated that a participatory and local solution should be created against the coronavirus outbreak.
Ankara Medical Chamber has announced that 18 healthcare professionals were diagnosed with Covid- 19.
The coronavirus which first erupted in China in December, continues killing people worldwide.
In the province of Urfa, which borders on Syria, more and more residential buildings and roads are being quarantined due to increasing corona infections. Meanwhile, the number of deaths caused by Covid-19 has risen to 131 nationwide.
There are heavy doubts about what the Turkish government is saying about the outbreak and it is worrying that it is not taking action.
Death toll rose to 131 and the total cases to 9,217. Turkish Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca announced that 23 more people have died of Coornavirus in the past 24 hours.
The large ro-ro ship used in vehicle transportation, which is not accepted to any port due to suspected coronavirus, was stranded off the Aegean Sea. There is a shortage of drinking water and there is no doctor on board.
With the Presidential Decree published in the Official Nespaper the new regulation of execution comes into force today in Turkey. Examining the regulation, ÖHD lawyer Nuray Özdoğan said, “The government states that with this arrangement, it will continue to enforce and implement enemy execution law".
Many buildings and streets are put under quarantine in 4 districts of Urfa due to coronavirus outbreak.
Prisoners staying in Tarsus T Type 2 Closed Prison stated that they are worried because of the necessary precautions against the coronavirus outbreak are not taken in prisons.
SES Kocaeli Branch President Murat Harata, who said that health workers have a lack of protective mask and gloves in the fight against coronavirus, noted that the ministry should solve this problem as soon as possible.
SES Union's Istanbul branches shared their demand list of 13 articles regarding the problems faced by healthcare professionals due to coronavirus outbreak with the Provincial Health Directorate.
68-year-old imprisoned Kurdish politician Mahmut Alınak who has chronic illnesses, requested his release due to coronavirus outbreak but his request was rejected on the grounds of "suspicion of absconding" His lawyer and his son Bişar Alınak stated, "My father did not flee neither from Kenan Evren fascism nor from Mehmet Ağar's "white Toros" attacks, would he escape now?"
Silopi Municipality Co-Mayor Adalet Fidan, who warned the public to stay home due to the coronavirus pandemic, said that they started to detect families with poor economic conditions considering a possible curfew.
SES Antalya Branch Co-chair Şükran İçöz, who stated that the information about the pandemic is not shared transparently, raised the demand that the health workers should be given individual protective equipments and should be tested by health screenings continuously.