A court docket ruling awarding momentary custody of a kid based mostly on the mom’s publicity to COVID-19 as a medical skilled has angered well being staff for setting an unfair precedent.
A nurse recognized by her initials C.D., who was serving within the house care companies division of a state hospital within the northern province of Ordu, filed for divorce and was initially awarded momentary custody of her 5-year-old son.
Nevertheless, the daddy, M.A.D., additionally petitioned the court docket, arguing that the mom working as an ambulance nurse places their son’s well being at grave threat. The daddy additionally stated the kid has a power sickness.
The court docket awarded momentary custody of the kid to the daddy, with the ruling stating that it’s for the good thing about the kid given the extremely contagious nature of the coronavirus.
Semih Durmuş, the chairperson of the Well being and Social Service Employees’ Union (Sağlık-Sen), stated in a press release Tuesday {that a} tragic scenario was created with the court docket ruling.
“It isn’t acceptable for well being staff to be stripped of their youngsters over their occupation. We have now objected to this court docket determination based mostly on no concrete information,” Durmuş stated.
The workload of well being staff has reached an insufferable degree with the COVID-19 outbreak, he added.
“We knew that well being staff had no peace left at house resulting from COVID-19, however we have began witnessing they’re being separated from their youngsters,” he stated.
Durmuş stated that the union has lengthy voiced the necessity for daycare courses or amenities for well being staff’ youngsters, arguing that this ruling was a results of the shortage of such companies.
Turkey witnessed a steep rise in COVID-19 infections and sufferers during the last week, with the newest information introduced by the Well being Ministry on Tuesday placing the variety of day by day constructive circumstances at 29,132, together with 6,876 symptomatic circumstances.
The brand new symptomatic circumstances raised the general depend to 474,606. A complete of three,291 sufferers recovered within the 24-hour interval, the information confirmed, bringing the tally to 388,771, whereas the dying toll rose by 174 to achieve 13,014. Greater than 168,300 extra COVID-19 checks have been performed throughout the nation, bringing the overall to over 17.9 million.
The variety of sufferers in essential situation now stands at 4,711, with the occupancy charges in intensive care models (ICUs) exceeding 70% in giant cities.
