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October 04, 2020 – 06:00
The situation in my hospital is terrible ‘: the confinement reveals the exhaustion of the junior doctor
I work in communications in the medical sector and during the blackout period it was not uncommon for two or three of the many young medical contacts on my phone to simultaneously post WhatsApp status updates while on call. I started to notice some trends: concerns about inadequate personal protective equipment, conflicts with management, and extreme fatigue.
“The headphones dance furiously to the rhythm of psy-trance on a yucca patch, the only way to process the last call,” reported a breathless doctor from Mpumalanga, where he is doing community service in a rural facility. As the peak period of the epidemic passed, updates from one particular contact, Dr. Zolelwa Sifumba, decreased with a frequency that equaled the narrative of life.
I was engrossed and quite concerned, and, since there is some voyeur about passively reading updates from people you don’t know that well, I moved closer.
