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Latest news … They wear a medical mask and five- or six-layer protective clothing and hit the road. The route sometimes takes them to a town with bad roads, and sometimes to secluded streets where the streetlights are not lit. If you think they will have a head rest when they finally get home, you are wrong. They can be invited to work even on days off with a message sent in the evening, so it is imperative that groups of mass messages follow.
The radiation teams are tired. There are even those who have not seen their family for months, and have even lived in dormitories for a while, as they go to the houses of the corona-positives and contact people day and night to protect public health. In return for these efforts, they rightly resent those who act insensitively and those who violate the rules of isolation. We heard the impressions of two dentists, a midwife, and a boss who worked on the radiation team.
Photo: Can Erok / DHA
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TWO WOMEN ARE WHEN WE GO; WE WANT THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE TO BE CLOSED, ITS TREATMENT …
H. A, 44, dentist
I’ve been on the film crew for two months. The first week I worked between 9 a.m. and 11 p.m., the following week we switched to the day work system, but despite this, they called to work from time to time. After working for three days, I will rest for a day, and the message “Come tomorrow” arrives at 23:00. I was going to meet my son’s teacher on my day off. For example, my hours of service were changed and I was unable to go to the meeting.
The radiation system began to settle, so the number of cases began to decline. The first days we were late. But the worst was going to the house of the deceased. Our friends went to a house that was not searched for two or three days, the patient was elderly and passed away. Recently, we are moving so fast that there are patients who learn that they are crown of us.
I need a lot of rest
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I went to a patient, he himself opened the door. As he spoke, someone came down the stairs with a pot in hand. The patient with the crown cooked the food and gave it to his neighbor, and his neighbor brought the pot. He walked in so comfortably and put the pot down that when I said “What are you doing, get out of here?”, He could say “I was here all day yesterday” in a perfectly normal way. There are those who live a community life in the building. Both patients and contacts go to work and use public transport. They also have a wedding association. When we say “there is a fine”, we get the answer “What will happen, I will pay.” There are people who are convinced when we tell them “don’t go out”, but most show that they will not obey this warning. When we call later, we see that they are not at home.
We were afraid to say “Put your mask on” to those who don’t wear their masks while traveling. Our friends became the police station because he said “put on the mask.” These cause anxiety. It is also very difficult to find an address at night. Especially in places where there is urban transformation … The apartment numbers are not visible, we enter, there is no light. In some places, the streets are dark. We usually go to two women to the houses. When there are men by our side, patients are a little behind, but they behave more comfortably when faced with women. We try not to spend too much time at home, we feel uncomfortable. We try to do our work more at the door, we want that door not to close. People even say, “Can I call you on anything?” When you have a man saying that, you get nervous. We are afraid.
We can’t feed ourselves well on filing days. This job is already very tiring, go 5 times, go 10 times. We are three people in the vehicle, I prefer not to drink water because I do not want to remove my mask and I am dehydrated. My son started saying, at the age of nine, “Mom, why don’t you have a normal job? Why can’t you take a break?” He just can’t understand how much time I spend with him. This is my agenda. I get home, if I don’t look at my phone for an hour, 100 messages have accumulated. “I wonder if there will be a new labor regulation” I have to read those messages constantly. I cannot rest and I urgently need rest.
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WE CONTINUE THIS WORK THANKS TO THOSE WHO CALLED US
AS, 38 years old, dentist
In the first months, all the positive cases were in the hospital. All patients, except those currently experiencing shortness of breath, receive treatment at home. In the early days, we only went to people that positive patients had contact with and explained the rules of isolation. As the hospital occupancy rate increased, some of the patients began to be treated at home, and we have been bringing medicines home for two months.
There are people who do not open the door despite being at home. There are those who try to add themselves to the list of ‘contacts’ to obtain permission from work. There are also those who hide because they feel compelled to leave, as well as those who are really in contact.
One day a man secretly called and …
A friend of mine was tasked with catching the cat that had escaped from a contact patient. Because he was worried that they would crown the whole neighborhood to catch the cat. One day a married man in the house we went to secretly called me and told me that he had had contact with two women in the same building. In rare cases, it also happens that blood pressure increases. A patient released from prison threw a pencil. We continue this work thanks to those who treat us kindly and pray.
What we do seems very easy from the outside. But while working with that team and the N95, we run out of breath, our sweat dries up and the next day we definitely have headaches, we get sick. I want my filler work to finish, I want to go back to my normal life.
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THERE IS ALSO CALLING ‘MUHTARIM FIRE’
Sultan Aksu Kütük, Rasimpaşa Ward Chief
We, the bosses, are in the Vefa Social Support group. As a member of this group, I have been on the film crew for two months. Our team also includes a police officer, a police officer, a teacher, and a religious official. The Ministry of Health has developed a new monitoring system called FITAS. Here comes the list of COVID-19 positives and contacts, and we go home immediately. We do not have health personnel with us, if we see a health problem, we call the District Health Office.
We do not have protective equipment. We take our own measurements. We stop at a distance of 1.5-2 meters in front of the apartment door and check if the person is at home and ask if they have any needs. If available, we write to the WhatsApp line established by the Kadıköy district governorate. Teams deliver help immediately. This is sometimes money, sometimes hot food, sometimes dry food, but it always comes.
When we cannot find patients who should be isolated at home, they are called by phone. If they can’t locate it or if you turn on your phone and it says “I’m not home,” a report is saved about it. The fine is 3,150 lire. If he persistently refuses to be isolated, he is placed in a bedroom. Those who do not follow the isolation rules are usually contact persons. There are also those who jump in saying “I have no symptoms” and call “My mukhtar, I have a fever” two days later.
I went to inspect a young woman, a teenage girl without a mask opened the door. She was her boyfriend. I said the name of the person I was looking for, “Why are you here? He has to be alone in isolation, “I said,” Sister, my love is in the crown, I must leave it alone, “he replied. Yes, it will leave you alone, this is a disease. A few days later I went to inspect the same house again. The same young man opened the door again. I asked the patient. “We fought, he left home. He doesn’t answer my phone, you call, maybe find out where he is, ”he said. My phone also didn’t turn on.
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THE PEOPLE I FILL WITH CALL ME TO ‘CAN GO OUT’
BA, 24, plaza
I’ve been on the film crew for eight months. I go to the villages of Diyarbakır for my work. There were times when I couldn’t go home and stayed in the bedroom, and I started to feel tired when I said longing for my family and job stress. I work between 8:00 and 24:00, even on my days off, the people I filmed call me, “What was the result of my test?”, “Can I go out?” In these conditions, it is impossible even to go to the bank, shop or rest. Five minutes that I did not think about the epidemic is a luxury for me.
I recently called a case. Although he knew that the test result was positive, he left. I informed the police, when the person was caught in Antep, the ticket was cut and placed in a bedroom. Then he called me and swore like I was to blame. Those who called at 1.00, at 2.00, those who sent messages at 3.00-4.00 … I said “Call 112 in case of emergency” but they called me because my number was open. There were also those who sent threatening messages, I complained. Fortunately, now something called switchboard dialing has been developed, our numbers are now private.
I went to a house to quarantine a contact person, “I have animals, how am I going to support my family if I don’t take care of them?”, He approached me. When the safety of my life was in danger, I thought, “Should I quit the process?” But if he left it, he could infect dozens of people. One day our other team goes to a house. Family members surround the team saying “Who are you, what are you looking for here?” Until the team reveals who they are, they are kicked in their vehicles, threatened with death, taken hostage, exposed to insults. Later we found out that the family had relatives, a son was murdered, so the relatives were on alert. We have not gone home to protect the health of our family for months, we find reactions that we do not deserve in the homes we go to protect the health of other people. They mentioned that additional payments would be given to healthcare workers, but when that was unfairly distributed and the practices of violence against healthcare professionals were insufficient, our motivation dropped even further.
