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At least 50 doctors have died from COVID-19 while trying to help the sick in Italy — having been sent “unarmed” to fight a “war” without essential protective supplies, their association claimed.

Italy’s National Federation of Orders of Surgeons and Dentists (FNOMCeO) released a list of names of the dead doctors amid a blistering attack on the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) available.

“The dead do not make a noise. Yet, the names of our dead friends, our colleagues, put here in black and white, make a deafening noise,” the association’s president, Filippo Anelli, said in a statement reported by The Independent.

Italy has become the epicenter of the contagion in Europe — now surpassed only by the US in the rest of the world — and has seen more than 10,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.

At least 17 of the dead doctors were in Bergamo, the city in Lombardy with the highest number of COVID-19 cases, the Independent said.

Anelli — who wrote a letter of complaint to President Maurizio Fugatti — insisted the deaths were a result of Italian doctors being sent to the “war” against coronavirus “unarmed,” with many reportedly only equipped with masks, scrubs, gloves and hairnets.

“It is reasonable to assume that these events would have been largely avoidable if health workers had been correctly informed and equipped with sufficient adequate PPE: masks, gloves, disposable gowns, protective visors,” Anelli said, according to the report.

Instead, they “continue to be in short supply or to be supplied in an unacceptable way in the midst of an epidemic to which even Italy had declared itself ready only up to two months ago.”

The World Health Organization (WHO) has also warned about the threat of limited PPE supplies.

“The chronic, global shortage of personal protective equipment is one of the most urgent threats to our collective ability to save lives,” director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, according to the report.

“When health workers are at risk, we’re all at risk,” he warned.