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Rimini, November 12, 2020 – From Covid heroes to ‘collaborators’. The step is long, not to mention crazy. But still …
“However, it is happening, with indicative episodes, more or less serious but all unpleasant and painful – attacks Matteo, a made-up name for an operator of ‘118 Romagna Soccorso Rimini’ who requests anonymity – and which concern nurses, like me, but also doctors, ambulance drivers, medical personnel. “
Let’s start with the most recent.
“There is a shame of choice – he says bitterly -. The last one goes back to a few days ago, when, after having briefly stopped in a bar for a coffee, after having carried out an emergency service, we saw him refuse.” .
That is to say?
“More than the owner, there were some clients who told us, in no uncertain terms, that they did not like that the health personnel risked contaminating the glasses from which they would later drink themselves.”
How did you react to?
“This is silly. First of all because we are not greasers. I, like my colleagues, have undergone three swabs and five serological tests. Not to mention that the cups are obviously washed. But always on a bar, one of those that I usually frequent, I have also heard that with Covid the Ausl raised more money, alluding to that that is why we nurses also march ”.
Heavy.
“Very heavy. We are not heroes, but in the first phase we gave our souls. Since March, emergency calls for heart, neurological, traumatic problems had disappeared. The standard problems. Almost all were called by Covid ”.
And now?
“We are getting more and more calls from people with breathing difficulties. People are scared. They don’t go to the emergency room. General practitioners work mainly by phone and the burden falls on us.”
What has changed since the first wave?
“They had given us the role of heroes. Rhetoric perhaps, but we rejoiced. The psychophysical stress experienced was strong. But also the rewards: one day we brought home a cured woman, they applauded us and thanked all the condominiums in Balcones. Hermoso. “.
And now?
“Something has changed. Doubts and anxieties creep in, deniers are intervening in social groups. For whom we and doctors are almost considered ‘collaborators’, no one knows by whom. Then people are also judged economically.”
And certain episodes occur.
“Someone also goes to the streets de facto. The denied coffees in the bar are the tip of the iceberg. I think of the approximately seventy cars vandalized in the hospital parking lot; two colleagues physically assaulted; certain videos on the network where it is made to believe that ambulances running empty. “
What do you want to tell citizens?
“I want to make it clear that we do not ask to be considered heroes, but we also do not want to pass as messengers. We are and will always be at the service of the community, of those who need help ”.
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