“We stand really helpless”: Naama Tochfeld, Shabbat Aunt Osnat is A nurse at Shaare Zedek Medical Center posted a Facebook post in which she addressed the plight of the medical staffs in the hospitals.
“Two days ago I sent Osnat a question on WhatsApp, and only from the answer did I realize that something was wrong,” Naama writes. “‘What happened, Aussie?’ I asked. And she answered: “I am in a mental and physical breakdown.” Osnat was drafted into the Corona ward, and she is among the fighters on the front of this deceptive and delusional disease. “
Naama later quotes Osnat’s words about the difficult distress: “This is the most horrible wave since the beginning of the corona. Every day, when I enter the shift, I have to prepare myself mentally. You do not know how the shift will begin and how it will end. Who will live and who will die, literally. “The number of patients is insane. People are hospitalized in the corridor. And it is no longer just the elderly, but also the young.”
“Due to the heavy workload of the hospitalized, I do not know who to approach first,” Osnat explains. “My standards have dropped miraculously. Now for me what matters is that their oxygen is normal, that they receive medication and eat. Everything else on my part goes down to the bottom of the list of priorities. Someone asks me for tea and I answer ‘later’ and leave the room quickly because there is a call Which lowers oxygen. A cup of hot tea in front of life-threatening. “If at other times I gave treatment, and wholeheartedly, today I am busy surviving,” she added.
She says, “I do not feel that I am a caregiver, I feel that I survive the shift to give basic care. Then I go out back into the world – and what do I find out? That people write on Facebook ‘Shakurona’ … “In the ward – then we’ll talk. Walla Naama, I’m coming home broken.”
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Posted by Naama Tuchfeld on Tuesday, January 12th, 2021