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Seniors you helped kiss your hand: priceless, she describes her profession
She is small, slim, with big blue eyes. Good hairdresser, but he’s after her. Because Gergana Nikolova, 44, decided 2 years ago to completely change her life and become the only woman, an ambulance driver, in the country.
To achieve his goal, Gerry must obtain a professional book and gain experience; This is what you find when you send documents to start working in the Emergency Department in the capital. So he found himself behind the wheel of a huge truck and worked for a year in a transport company. However, driving, especially in the capital, is not alien to him, since before 2000 he also worked as a taxi driver in Sofia. You know the streets of the city like the back of your hand, which is definitely an advantage for an ambulance driver candidate.
Gergana does not have a specific answer as to why she wanted to be part of the emergency medical team. She has had her own hairdresser for several years. She felt satisfied, in addition to beautifying people and talking to them. They shared both the good and the bad, talking to people somehow attracted her to the idea that she could help those in need.
So,
after winning
exactly 1 year and
1 day as driver of
truck fragile
a woman has already covered
requirements
for practices. The mandatory test is still checking your driving skills, how well you know Sofia and whether you can orient yourself on a map. He manages without problem and for more than two years he flies with the siren through the city and saves people.
Initially, the men’s team has doubts that Gergana will last more than a month or two. Today she remembers it with a smile and says that it was not long before she was fully accepted. “My teammates are incredible, I see the respect in all of them and I know that if necessary they will always respond”, says Nikolova with affection for them.
Meeting people and talking to them is still what motivates her for the difficult profession and the desire to help. What’s more, she’s already 6 months old.
paramedic course,
be more
Most useful in the patient rescue mission.
When they arrive at the address in an ambulance, the relatives of the patient greet them anxiously, subject to all kinds of emotions, Gergana describes her daily life. She is convinced that in this tense moment they deserve to have someone who will talk to them, listen to them, reassure them and above all assure them that everything will be fine. And the dark driver with good blue eyes is always ready to be that person.
“A greeting at the beginning predisposes them not to be aggressive. The fact that you go to help them and tell them “Now we will look, we will fix things!” Explains the only woman in our country at the wheel of an ambulance.
While we are in the direction, I am absolutely mobilized, my emotions kill later, describes Gergana.
“It’s over
everything can
be cut
legs “,
she says.
He and Dr. Lachezar Vassilev, with whom they currently form a team, know that they depend on each other, and it is important to understand each other only by sight. Together they spend 12-hour shifts, day and night. For a shift, sometimes they have to visit 15 addresses that serve them with all kinds of cases. She personally experienced the tragedies. She still cannot overcome the one with the crashed child, who they failed to save.
Now, COVID-19 is the next big test for emergency medical teams. He and Dr. Vassilev often respond to patients with suspected infection. People are said to be sometimes afraid to admit that they are most likely infected, and they happen to be silent about symptoms when calling 112.
The procedure for such visits is exhausting: putting on coveralls, masks and stockings, and after returning to the plant, a 40-minute disinfection is carried out – staff and ambulance. Dr. Vassilev himself is one of the doctors infected with COVID-19. He fights the virus for ten days and says that he really is not like the others. The patient’s doctor was terribly exhausted, he lost his taste and smell. “It was difficult. When a person experiences it, he says to himself: yes, the virus exists,” he added.
Both Gergana Nikolova and Dr. Lachezar Vassilev say that
have found aggression,
but they choose not to focus on this part of their daily life. Both believe that the most important thing is to do the work for which they have been responsible. In recent months, when the center of the capital was paralyzed by protests, all CSMP – Sofia teams have tried not to confront the discontent. On one of their shifts, however, Gergana and Dr. Vassilev take a small boy with a temperature of 40 ° in Gorublyane and have to go through the blockades of the Rectorate and Orlov Most. The protesters began to whistle into the ambulance, hearing insults inside. “I am so disappointed in the people there! They can’t swear in the ambulance, insult us. Yes, they made a path, but at the same time, to put it mildly, garbage is dumped in our direction, ”Gergana commented.
One of the biggest problems of the Emergency Service is the lack of doctors. It is estimated that Sofia needs about 80 teams, and on average they have between 15 and 20. This small number of teams also take on social functions, when it comes to helping the homeless, people with mental disorders and intoxicated people, who actually they don’t need medical help.
School: this is how Geri and the young ER doctor define their work at CSMP – Sofia. “It will definitely help if people start to respect us a little more. Have confidence, because we are going to help and they should welcome us with this attitude,” says Dr. Vassilev.
Gergana insists that she loves what she does. Appreciate the gratitude you receive. She definitely accepts the profession of an ambulance driver as her calling.
“It has happened to me that older people take my hand, kiss it and thank me. It just can’t be described … It makes all my work meaningful, ”says the woman, her eyes shining.
They also shine when he mentions his daughter Valya. The girl is 20 years old, last year she was a dance girl. And like her mother, she always wants to help if someone is in trouble. She considered studying at the Academy of the Interior Ministry and becoming a police officer, but after 3 years of volunteer work at “Ekoravnovesie” – Sofia, for now she has the ambition to take up veterinary medicine. The paramedic believes that as a mother she has managed to transmit to her son the desire to help as a value. “It’s a little more emotional, everything comes from the years. Everything he can, he will do to help a friend, he will get up at night, start the car … ”, describes Gergana.
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