Staff Chief of the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Dr. Joseph Vorone told CNN’s New Day on Monday that he had worked 256 days non-stop in the epidemic so far and was frustrated by the growing number of people being hospitalized.
Von Ron described the frustration of Kovid-19 patients in his ward, who said they were fighting loneliness as well as the virus. The doctor said that the man he was comforting in the photo only wanted his family.
“When I go inside my covid unit I see this old patient out of his bed and trying to get out of the room and he’s crying. So, I get close to him and I tell him that. ‘ Why are you crying ‘. And the man says,’ I want to be with my wife ‘, “said the wolf. “So, I’m just holding it, I’m holding it, I didn’t know my photo was being taken at the time.”
“Eventually the man felt better and stopped crying,” Vorone said. But he said the patient would not be able to see his wife until she had a negative test on her swabs and was discharged.
‘You feel different’
“It’s very difficult. You can imagine. You’re in a room where people come in spacesuits and you can’t talk to anyone, just by phone you’re lucky. I mean it’s very It’s harder and when you’re an older person it’s harder because you think you’re alone. You feel different. “
Von said he was holding the man, reminding all the other patients that he had to give them the same comfort.
“I’ll go to their room; I’ll sit on their bed and chat with them because they really need someone to help them. And my staff is very good at doing this, but we have a lot of patients that sometimes we can’t keep up. Hold each patient’s or patient’s hand or at least try to be a little more human, “said Dr. Cutter. “Some of them are crying, some of them are trying to escape – we really had someone who tried to escape through the window the next day.”
The man in the photo will be able to see his wife soon, the groom said. His condition improved, and staff hoped he would be released by the end of the week.
The doctor’s fight is still going on.
“I don’t know what keeps me going, I don’t know how I didn’t break down,” he said. “My nurses are broken. My nurses cry in the middle of the day because they feel so sad, sometimes for such situations. Just see a patient who is crying because he wants to see his family.”
‘Keep your social distance; Wear your mask; Wash your hands’
Vernon said he was frustrated that people weren’t doing the right thing because coronavirus patients continue to fill his hospital beds.
“I go out day in and day out and people do the wrong thing there. People are there in bars, rest restaurants, rentals, malls – it’s crazy – it’s like we work, work, work, work and people Don’t listen and then they end up in my ICU, ”he said.
“People need to know that – I don’t need to hug them. They need to do the basics: keep your social distance; wear your mask; avoid washing your hands and go where they are. Too many people. Too easy. If people can do that health care workers like me will be able to – hopefully relax. “
Vorone said he was trying to make the media transparent so that people could see the reality of the situation at his hospital and gotty photographer Go Nakamura admitted to his Covid-19 ward, thus capturing his image.
Bad crisis
Nakamura posted a photo on his Facebook account with the caption: “Nov. 26. Dr. Joseph Veron comforts a coronavirus patient. I am grateful to witness a wonderful moment and thank the medical staff for their hard work.” Holiday season. ગgettyimages #covidera #photoj Photograph for “Journalism”
Other photos of the hospital posted on Nakamura’s feed show that there are distressed, distressed medical personnel treating or relaxing patients.
Vorone spoke to CNN’s New Day on November 25 and warned that the crisis was getting worse.
“Over the last few days, we have seen a steady increase in the number of cases. There is no question that patients are coming to the hospital – they are getting sicker. And they are getting sicker because they are waiting longer. Fed up; they call me ‘corona fatigue syndrome’. “Everyone is fed up with corona, so they wait, they wait a long time,” he said.
“Unfortunately, my concern for the next six to 12 weeks is that if we don’t do things right, America will see the darkest day in modern American medical history.”
Vernon said his hospital has opened two new wings to prepare for the expected influx of patients after hospitalization as the epidemic continues unabated.
“This is taking a huge amount. Not just on me but on the health care workers who work with me. My nurses, in the middle of the day they will start crying because you know they are taking so many patients and never will. The final story. When they finally finish coming inside the patient, they get a call from the ER that there is another patient who is being admitted, “he said.
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