“Worrying about not having Christmas in the hospital” – Corriere.it

In recent weeks, after being at the center of the news in the first wave of Covid for that symbolic photo that portrayed her exhausted on the desk in the emergency room, she had closed in a kind of silence. Yesterday, Elena Pagliarini, a nurse at the Maggiore hospital in Cremona, is back to speak on Facebook. He did it with a post in light tones: “Big concern about Christmas lunch … worry about not making it at the hospital, or maybe never eat again, “he wrote at a time when Italy is looking forward to the arrival of the holidays. Not just positive comments, below the post taken up by many users.

There is who insults her, who accuses her of terrorism. And there are many: “One photograph was enough to make you famous, now think about your work,” we read. And again: “Now the nurses who have collapsed on the hospital table are elevated to champions of Health, allowing themselves to give advice on people’s lives.” And to say that when that photo came out, Nurse Elena became a symbol praised by all. The shot that portrayed her at the end of a work shift on one of the “hot fronts” of the first wave earned her the title of Cavaliere of Merit of the Republic, awarded by President Mattarella. It was March.

To immortalize that moment was Francesca Mangiatordi, an emergency doctor from Cremona. She, who after a few days would have had to stop a few weeks after being infected, immediately spoke of “a moment of despair” and at Messenger Service He had told how it had gone: “The shift was about to end and I felt helpless. Before falling asleep at the desk I had been crying bitterly. On the one hand I am ashamed to find myself in all the newspapers, on the other I am happy: now on my mobile there are beautiful messages from people who have identified with my story ». Until today’s post, which on the one hand gathers consensus and on the other, indignation.