The impact of omicron variant of coronavirus It has overwhelmed health centers, so retired professionals and students go to outpatient clinics as retirees to help fight the virus.
Teresa goes to the clinic where she has been a volunteer nurse for half a year. She is retired, but her vocation is still intact. “The one who is born a nurse, dies a nurse”, dice.
That is why, when primary care began to overwhelm, without thinking twice he put his robe back on to lend a hand in a health center. Teresa explains that for her this work represents “very little effort and a lot of personal satisfaction”.
There, prepare the dose of the vaccine against Covid-19 so that their colleagues can vaccinate faster and attend to the avalanche of efforts that lie ahead. “In addition to vaccination, we have to take on the rest of the tasks and we lack hands and is a great help“, say his companions.
Students also help
Not only retired professionals pitch in, but also students in training. Lucía and Ana are in the third year of nursing and are now injecting booster doses of the coronavirus vaccine. They explain that “it’s a pleasure” to help when everything is so congested.
This sixth wave has once again put the toilets on the ropes, especially in the primary care. “It is very difficult, also in a situation where professionals also get sick and there are fewer professionals for a job that is much more than we had before“, they complain.
In just a month and a half, More than a million of toilets have been infected in Catalonia, which is half of what had been registered in the entire pandemic. Therefore, all help is little in the fight against the virus.
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