Mexico Uses The Former Presidential Palace For The Isolation Of Medical Personnel

Former Los Pinos Presidential Palace (Wikimedia Commons)

JAKARTA - Support continues to arrive to medical personnel who are fighting COVID-19 around the world. Some provide support in the form of personal protective equipment (PPE), provide food, and turn hotels in their country into temporary residences for medical personnel to isolate themselves.

Later, support also came from the Mexican Government, on Tuesday, 7 May. Not only providing moral support, the power owners took advantage of the former Mexican Presidential Palace, Los Pinos became a temporary home for medical personnel.

Launching Reuters, Los Pinos which is the luxurious residence of the President of Mexico since 1934 has been renovated in such a way that it can accommodate a hundred medical personnel. However, now Los Pinos has 58 medical personnel, ranging from doctors to nurses, so that they can quietly isolate themselves while reducing the risk of transmitting COVID-19 to their loved ones.

"(The palace) is a space built for civil servants. Therefore doctors and nurses are part of the employees who are fighting to risk their lives to save the lives of others," said Mexican Social Security Director Zoe Robledo.

Not only that, medical personnel who stay at Los Pinos will get food, laundry and cleaning services. This was done as a token of appreciation to those who daily struggle against COVID-19.

Before becoming a temporary home for medical personnel, Los Pinos had been changed its function by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as a cultural center after he won the election in 2018. At the same time, he made Los Pinos a medium for realizing his oath in eradicating greedy political elites.

So far Mexico has confirmed 27,634 cases of COVID-19 transmission. Among them, there were 2,704 deaths.