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It’s 7:20 a.m. and Gloria Torres, a sixth year student of the Medicine career at the San Sebastián University (USS), begins his journey to the Puerto Montt Hospital. And, despite the fact that he lives near the premises, the series of measures that he must adopt before starting work mean that he needs to leave his home at least 40 minutes in advance.
“We, like every official, go with street clothes and with our clinical uniform in a separate bag. We arrived at the hospital and there we changed in the changing rooms for the officials, we left the street clothes in cloakroom, we washed our hands, and then we asked the chief nurse for a mask to examine the patients, ”he explained to El Dínamo.
In this way, for her and for nine other inmates of the USS, the working day in this hospital begins; at 8 o’clock in the Internal Medicine area.
It is worth mentioning that the work of these young people is part of a voluntary initiative that seeks to help the medical personnel of the hospital, who have seen how the number of consultations has increased as a result of the current pandemic.
“We are all well committed to helping where we can and the doctors are super happy to have help. This, because in that service the number of patients has increased greatly, because they are the ones who see Covid patients, “Gloria said.
Although these ten interns, who are part of a group of 60 volunteers – sixth and seventh year of medicine from the USS – who will take turns working every 14 days, do not directly examine patients with coronavirus, in some cases They have had to attend to these in relation to administrative procedures.
However, their job is to examine patients with other pathologies associated with Internal Medicine, such as liver damage, duodenal ulcer or pneumonia not related to Covid-19.
On the other hand, and regarding the fear that working in a hospital in the midst of a pandemic could cause, it is worth noting that the tranquility still prevails in this area, based mainly on the confidence that there is in the security measures adopted, Gloria reports.
In view of this, the interest of these Medicine interns is to continue contributing to the hospital and its medical staff as long as it is needed. “We don’t want to be oblivious to this because we all feel a commitment to patients and people,” said Gloria.
In fact, as confirmed by the deputy dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Science of the Patagonia headquarters of the USS, Dr. Alejandro Caroca, will continue “supporting health care in the hospital for as long or as many months as necessary. It is the feeling of our students in these moments of crisis, which speaks highly of their ethical and value training, but also of their commitment to public health. ”
Gloria Torres.
Joining efforts
To face the coronavirus pandemic, it requires an effort from all sectors of society, and from the university level, in the USS they have promoted a series of measures.
In addition to the aforementioned volunteers, at the San Sebastián University they are concentrated in the manufacture of facial protection shields, which are made by their teachers and students through 3D printing and distributed among Community Family Health Centers (Cesfam) and others sanitary facilities.
The initiative, which aims to deliver nearly 400 face shields per week, is carried out by all the university’s headquarters in the country (Santiago, Concepción, Valdivia and Puerto Montt).
