A doctor responsible for treating patients with COVID-19 has opened up about heartbreaking moments during which she witnessed her dying patients make their final wishes.
As Dr. Francesca Cortellaro from Italy expressed, she personally witnessed the last moments of several patients who succumbed to the killer bug.
While some patients get to say their final goodbyes to their family members, many die alone with no one to comfort them.
“You know what’s most dramatic? Seeing patients dying alone, listening to them as they beg you to say goodbye to their children and grandchildren,” Dr. Cortellaro, who works for San Carlo Borromeo in Milan, said in an interview with Il Giornale.
“They are lucid, they do not go into narcolepsy. It is as if they were drowning, but with time to understand it. When they are about to die, they sense it.”
The doctor went on to recall the moment she tried to help a sick grandma make her final wish come through by contacting her family via video call so that they could say goodbye.
Previously, doctors from around the world have also 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.”
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