German doctors have stripped naked in a series of photos to show how vulnerable they feel without adequate PPE on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.
In one of the photos a doctor holds up a sign that reads in German, “I learned to sew wounds. Why do I now need to know how to sew masks?”
The photos are part of a campaign called Blanke Bedenken, which translates from German as “naked concerns."The equipment, which includes face masks, goggles, gloves and protective clothing, is essential to prevent exposure during treatment of coronavirus patients. TheOn its website, Blanke Bedenken says its members were inspired by Alain Colombie, a family doctor in Pomérols, France, who posed naked in his practice to draw attention to insufficient protection for general practitioners.
German health officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the group's campaign.
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