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Tokyo Games need 500 nurses; nurses say needs are elsewhere – Wide World of Sports
‘Human life is being taken lightly’
Some nurses in Japan are incensed at a request from Tokyo Olympic organisers to have 500 of them dispatched to help out with the games. They say they’re already near the breaking point dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.
Olympic officials have said they will need 10,000 medical workers to staff the games, and the request for more nurses comes amid a new spike in the virus with Tokyo and Osaka under a state of emergency.
“Beyond feeling anger, I was stunned at the insensitivity,” Mikito Ikeda,…
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