A Detroit Nurse Was Fired After Speaking Out About Conditions In Her Hospital During The Coronavirus Outbreak. Now She’s Fighting Back.
all across the country, where black communities are being hit especially hard by the coronavirus.
Barkai described Sinai-Grace as the “stepchild” of the DMC health system. “There’s always been equipment that’s been outdated or old, or just not working, that you kind of just have to rig per se to try to get it to work,” she said. “The environment itself has always been paint chipping, or dirty rooms, old bathrooms, no hot running water.”
Once the coronavirus made its way to Detroit in March, the problems at Sinai-Grace only got worse, Barkai said. She said she was tasked to care for patients who did and did not have COVID-19, and was worried about infecting the patients who didn’t have it. Personal protective equipment was also running low, like at hospitals across the country.
“The reports that we have been hearing from nurses at Sinai Grace Hospital are horrific,” Brown said. “Nurses are being put in impossible situations. This should never have been allowed to have happened in the first place and cannot be allowed to happen in the future.” Barkai took on the seventh patient, but said she told the senior nurse that the state — which can investigate hospitals for health code violations — needed to look into the staffing issues at Sinai-Grace.The next day, Barkai appeared in a local newssaying the hospital was in dire need of additional resources and that she was worried about contaminating patients who didn’t have the virus. After that, she never got any more shifts, she said, and began to suspect something was wrong.
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