Several doctors have spoken out about the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic and revealed how they are forced to isolate themselves from their families by sleeping in different rooms and avoiding all physical contact.
While plenty of people continue to ignore orders of the authorities who urged everyone to stop going around and self-isolate, many doctors have expressed their heartbreak over the fact that they can’t be close to their families because they could have been exposed to the killer bug while treating patients.
“I’m a Dr. I’m about to separate from my family within my home for ?? months. So that I can keeping treating you, whilst trying to keep my family safe,” a doctor named Seema wrote in her online post.
“It hurts. No hugs from my girls, no cuddles from my partner. PLS socially distance NOW, to make my sacrifice worth it.”
Another doctor, Tatiana Prowell, shared a photo of her doctor husband’s new room – a closet in which he’d been staying ever since he started treating coronavirus patients.
According to Michigan-based Jack Iwashyna, he isolated himself at his own home by sleeping in the basement to reduce the risk of exposing his family to the virus.
As Stacy Smith, a wife on an ER physician, added, her husband self-isolated in a trailer “away from our three boys and me, indefinitely, due to #coronavirus.”
Previously, dozens of coronavirus nurses from around the world have shared photos of facial injuries they sustained while wearing masks to protect themselves from the killer bug.
One of the hardworking nurses who shared her selfie was Italy-based Alessia Bonari who’s been working nonstop to treat coronavirus patients in Milan.
As Ms. Bonari explained, she and other nurses aren’t able to eat or go to the comfort room properly during their long shifts at the hospital.
In addition, poorly fitted face masks, which nurses have to wear the entire time, may result in facial scars and injuries to the face.
Elena Pagliarini is another Italian nurse who shared a picture of her sleeping on her work desk as she took a break while treating patients at a Cremona hospital.
Meanwhile, dozens of nurses from South Korea have shared pictures in which they are seen wearing bandages to cover up their facial marks.
As Jung Sang-min, the representative of Keimyung University Daegu Dongsan Hospital, explained in an interview with AFP, “more nurses wear bandages than doctors because they spend more time tending patients.”
In addition, the spokesperson revealed it takes the nurses around thirty minutes to get dressed before they are ready to tend to their patients.
“The nurses are the ones who truly dedicate the most in this fight,” Sang-min added.
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