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The number of seriously ill Covid patients is increasing in hospitals. But many caregivers are still exhausted from the first wave and angry that their need is being ignored.
An entire team helps ventilate a patient in the intensive care unit at La Carita Hospital in Locarno in April. Today, many nurses are still exhausted from shift work.
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“You don’t have to clap again,” says Antje Heise, head of intensive care medicine at Thun. “Action is needed now.”
Heise is in the Presidium of the Swiss Society of Intensive Care Medicine and speaks from the heart to many nurses. In the first wave, healthcare workers performed excellently – grueling extra shifts, strenuous services, sometimes without adequate protective gear. They cared for dying patients and relatives in the attack.
There was applause on the balconies. It has been promised to improve the nursing profession. Society seemed to understand the systemic relevance of this work.
