On their International Day ... health workers under Corona are doing their duty to ensure the health security of the community

Damascus-Sana

At a time when the workers of the world celebrate tomorrow their global day, we find workers in health institutions of different specialties, including nurses, informants, and others, as well as doctors who work with all their energy, translating their holiness of their profession with all responsibility to ensure health security for all, not aware of the risks imposed on them by working conditions in crises and epidemics, the last of which is tackling a virus Corona Novel.

Health workers in Syria continue their national role, which they performed with all responsibility and sacrifice during the years of the terrorist war on Syria as a reserve for the Syrian Arab Army, and we find them today on the front lines to confront the Corona virus and protect public health.

The nurse Afra Abu Khaled reduces the images of duty and sacrifice that work in this sector requires, as it is one of the health cadres working in the Al-Zabadani Hospital in Damascus countryside, where today he provides treatment to people infected with Coronavirus, where she indicated that the nature of her work requires wearing a full protective suit for a period exceeding five hours during her presence In the room of the person infected with the virus to provide him with treatment, confirming that by taking with her co-workers all the preventive precautions, she does not feel any fear as she performs her duty and deals with the patients and provides them with psychological support as well.

“Since I entered the nursing school and I am aware of the difficulties that workers can face in this profession and the conditions imposed by working conditions during wars and epidemics, but I have been doing my work for fifteen years with full responsibility, there is no happiness achieved greater than the happiness of contributing to the recovery of a patient and saving his life.” In the intensive care department of Ibn Al-Nafees Hospital in Damascus, Darin Shamall, work in the nursing profession, in which workers became the first line of defense this period, to ensure the health safety of society and confront the Corona virus.

In the isolation of patients suspected of being infected with the virus in the Ibn Al-Nafees Hospital, nurse Maya Daoud works for 32 hours, separated by 6 hours, to monitor the condition of patients with suspected corona infection, where David, who works in this profession for nine years, is married and has children, that work during this period It takes hours to work longer and take all personal protection measures, as we have to wear a protective suit while we are in the isolation department to preserve our safety and that of our families, confirming that they are now doing their duty to patients to protect the people of the country and prevent the spread of infection.

And from the laboratory of medical analyzes in the hospital between each of the labors Bashar Tekle and Jinan Eid, medical personnel of various specialties have a great responsibility in facing the Corona virus, each according to the nature of his work, indicating that the work pressure increased in the laboratory, which required additional hours of work besides caution and attention To prevent the transmission of any pathogenic infection by taking all preventive measures from wearing masks and gloves, stressing that the real holiday for any worker is what he provides during his work and the extent to which he contributes to ensuring safety and health for the community.

The head of the hospital’s nursing department, Nazir Al-Homsi, explained that the nature of work in health institutions today requires the full mobilization of various medical cadres from nurses and technicians, especially in the ambulance and intensive care departments and the isolation department, which is dedicated to each hospital to receive patients suspected of being infected with the Corona virus, stressing the readiness of health cadres to work with all energy and dedication Taking all preventive measures, calling on community members to abide by all the rules of hygiene and procedures imposed by the team dealing with the virus for their safety and the safety of medical personnel.

The president of the Syndicate of Nursing and the Health and Medical Professions Assistant Yousra Malil considered that what the medical and health cadres provide during this period while they are tackling the Corona virus is a national duty that is complementary to their role during the past years of the unjust terrorist war on Syria, where they were beside the valleys of the Syrian Arab Army and martyred and injured many cadres As a result of terrorists targeting health facilities, it is pointing out that Labor Day this year differs from previous years because it comes in conjunction with the global epidemic that threatened the world's workers and economies and workers in the health sector are part of the working class that works to secure a rectifier. National steadfastness.

Enas Alsafan