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In the ORF interview, a senior nurse offers a shocking insight into her daily professional and private life.
“I have 49 Covid patients, which means the risk is of course higher than if I were elsewhere,” says Andrea Schmalzbauer, director of two corona stations at the Ottakring Clinic. Not only has his professional life changed dramatically in recent months, but also his private life: “I have not hugged or kissed my children since March.”
Hot and headache
Besides the personal effort, the enormous hygiene effort is the most serious difference: “It’s hot […] now she wears her normal clothes, then all these layers of protective clothing over her. Constantly working with this tight-fitting mask makes you feel tired. Your head hurts during the day because the rubber also exerts some pressure and blinds the visor. Communication with the patient is also very clouded because we can no longer have direct contact through facial expressions, “explains the experienced nurse in an interview with the moderator of” Wien heute “Patrick Budgen.
“Corona is not a germ from a distant galaxy”
The average age of the patients in their wards is around 50 years. For many younger patients, severe illness is a “watershed experience.” It is all the more incomprehensible to look at photos of crowded department stores and bustling private parties. Not only unreasonable, but also a performance degradation for all of Corona’s helpers:
“We are alienated, offended, a little indignant and quite disappointed, because we know very well that many of these people who had to buy something fast end up with us,” said Schmalzbauer, who is now right and appeals to the common sense of the people, because : “I can’t make my life depend on what a politician tells me on television.”
