Santiago Moreno, Head of Infectious Diseases of the Ramón y Cajal Hospital, has joined work today. He has been on leave for several weeks, with coronavirus. “I have rejoined with great desire, also, I wanted this hard episode to end for me and for mine,” he told us in an interview on Hora 25.
What has a professional like him learned from a virus like this while being patient?
“I have learned a lot of things. Once everything ends well, one has the opportunity to analyze everything and get the positive both as a person and as a doctor, to learn how to do things better.” Moreno has given us an example that is very shared by many health professionals, especially nurses from Intensive Care Units, who have contacted us through the program’s WhatsApp. “There is an aspect about the coronavirus that has caught my attention a lot: the fact that in this infection, as it is especially transmissible, patients are not allowed to visit because of the contagion risk. Family members receive very fragmented information and the patient suffers from not knowing how theirs are, not being able to see them and knowing that they have little information. Many doctors and health professionals take personal communication with family members as a responsibility. The people who attended me used to seek video calls with my family. That is until we lived it, we don’t know what it is. It makes you appreciate the greatness of the person who cares for you and the sensitivity that you have to have with those affected. “
Santiago Moreno, with whom we spoke on January 30 and warned that the peak of the wave was far, consider that now we have already passed it. But there is no need to relax. In his opinion, “we continue to be infected by the number of asymptomatic people there are, probably many more than we imagine. Asymptomatic people are and will be the main problem. Most people with symptoms go to the doctor, but the that they do not have them and they do not continue transmitting the virus. They, the asymptomatic ones, will be the cause of our future waves. ” The only way to control the virus, insists the Head of Infectious Diseases of the Ramón y Cajal Hospital, is not to relax, not to be overconfident, even if the situation improves.
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