Italian Doctor Who Warned About Lack of Protective Gloves DIes From Coronavirus

A doctor in Italy who described his concerns in a recent television interview about how the shortages of medical supplies meant he had to treat patients with coronavirus without wearing gloves, has died from the illness.

Marcello Natali, 57, from Codogno, in the northern province of Lombardy, had also sounded the alarm over the number of doctors who were getting infected, during an interview with the press before he tested positive.

He told that he was not able to work with gloves because "they have run out."
He said in the interview, 
"We certainly weren't prepared to face such a situation. Especially those of our generation, that of the post-antibiotic era, who grew up thinking that a pill against disease was enough."
"We have fewer visits to the clinic by choice because we want as little access as possible to an area that is a potential location for contamination."

After he tested positive, Natali was hospitalized in Cremona before being transferred to Milan after developing double pneumonia.

The Italian Federation of General Practitioners confirmed his death, with its regional secretary Paola Pedrini describing the gravity of the outbreak in Europe's worst-hit nation as a "war."
She said that in Bergamo province alone, 110 doctors out of 600 doctors were sick and that medical supplies were still low "The situation has not got better since the end of February. We received some masks, some gloves, kit, nothing else. A mask that should last half-a-day, here lasts a week."
"We practice a lot over the phone, when possible, to avoid the spread of the virus and getting in contact with asymptomatic people who still carry the virus," Pedrini told.