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The figures provided by the Ministry of Health are poignant: the coronavirus has already killed 2 laboratory diagnosticians, 4 medical assistants, 12 pharmacists, 16 paramedics, 19 midwives, up to 131 nurses and 154 doctors, including 16 dentists in Poland.
– I myself experienced the death of two of my companions, very young. One was 45 years old, the other 52. These were the people who participated in the fight against this epidemic. This is a difficult situation. It is simply a time of such war in health care that we have not had since the end of World War II, said Jerzy Karpiński, a provincial physician from Pomerania.
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The internet is full of obituaries of healthcare workers. The Nurses and Midwives Union has not kept up to publish new ones. One of them is the obituary of Nurse Małgorzata Wójtowicz from Gorzów Wielkopolski Hospital. He was fifty years old.
– She was always available, cheerful, smiling and, most importantly, she was very loved by our patients. In our ward, it is almost 100 percent of people vaccinated, while Gosia did not have time to be vaccinated, said Renata Szczepankiewicz, coordinating nurse of the Department of Nephrology and Clinical Transplantation of the Provincial Multispecialist Hospital in Gorzów Wielkopolski.
This Friday, the government registered almost five thousand new cases of COVID-19 less than a week …
In addition, tens of thousands of infected must add to several hundred deaths: almost 2,000 diagnoses, more than 25,000 doctors and almost 60,000 nurses.
The appeal of doctors
– We get very sick from the staff. We had a period in which we had to close the operating room completely, because most of the instructors got sick or were in quarantine, and he did not forgive us – admitted Dr. Jerzy Friediger, director of the Hospital of Specialists. Stefan Żeromski SP ZOZ in Krakow.
Vaccines have reduced the number of infections and deaths among medical workers, but this is still a high-risk group – they are physically and mentally exhausted from hard work in extreme conditions.
“I don’t remember being as difficult as it is now,” said a paramedic.
Hence the appeal of doctors on the threshold of Christmas.
– Behind these enormous numbers there are tears, there is pain, there is suffering, loneliness and nostalgia for those who stayed behind. And yet, these holidays, like all holidays in the Polish tradition, are family holidays – said prof. Andrzej Matyja, president of the Supreme Medical Council.
Therefore, let us pass them safely in our families, to minimize the risk of those who have been risking their lives for us for a year.
Author: Marek Nowicki / Source: Fakty TVN
