San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
“I collapsed the day a friend and colleague died, and when a young patient died who agonized for hours because of the Covid-19, despite all the efforts we made,” he told Diario The Press Beatriz Sorto (26), Nursing Professional Honduran Institute of Social Security (IHSS) in the northern area.
“When the health crisis started I never thought all this would happen, so many dead and pain. Arguably the most terrible thing is to see a patient agonizing for Covid-19. It was up to us to test our vocation and our body’s ability to care for patients after more than eight hours’ work. “
Sorto added that the pandemic reaffirmed the valuable work carried out by nurses in different centers and hospitals. “I’ve always said that without the nursery a physical structure would not be a hospital, this area is everything for the patient, we provide the necessary care, we know everything about him without having to tell us what he needs “.
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The area of Covid-19 in which Sorto works has the capacity for 106 patients and has 26 professionals from nursery and 56 auxiliaries.
To enter the unit you must use the personal protective equipment, Wash your hands, put on the Tyvek Monkey (permeable suit), gloves, dressing gown, boots, mask of the best protection, glasses or masks and another pair of gloves, “then put on the l ‘team not being able to go to the bathroom to do our physiological needs’.
The work of Beatriz and his colleagues have gone beyond medical care and is that even though patients only get to see their eyes for the biosafety team, during their recovery process they become a family.
“They learn to recognize us by voice. We sang them on their birthdays, we gave them words of encouragement and helped them keep in touch with their relatives. We try to convey good vibes to them because once they come in here they can’t see their loved ones “.
These valuable actions have touched the hearts of humble families who are stripped naked of how little they have to show their gratitude. “On one occasion they brought me some drinks and fruit. I’m sorry to receive details, because I don’t do it out of interest, but because I’m born. My heart gets small when they thank me and bless me, I can’t help but naked in the throat and I feel the best nurse“.
Unfortunately, in many cases even the doctors i nurses do whatever is in your hands, the virus acts unpredictably.
“I can’t forget the case of a young man named Sants who fought for several days against him Covid and he hoped he would recover. He always waited for her to greet him and said ‘Aja and you’re not gone, you have to worry’. From one moment to the next it got worse and one day he started to agonize. I prayed for a miracle and prayed to God that this boy would not die, I went home with an anguished heart, but with faith in the Lord and the next day he died, it hurt me a lot and I always remember it. ” .
Staying away from his family has also been a tough test. At the beginning of the pandemic he made the decision not to see his parents for several months to avoid putting them at risk. “I asked them not to come to the city, because we were the foci of infection and they were more at risk of infection. I stopped seeing them and when I met them again I couldn’t give them a hug and a kiss for fear of making them sick. “
Despite the sad, tired days and the rise of cases for Covid-19, The nurse maintains that she would not quit her job, which she chose when she was studying her senior year of school.
“I didn’t know what to study, but a colleague said that her mother was a nurse and that’s where the idea was born. I made the decision when my father was in very poor health and I took care of her. enroll in the National Autonomous University of Honduras of the Sula Valley (Unah-vs) and I titled “.
From that moment he knew that he would dedicate his life to nursing, a noble task that requires a huge vocation and which he has decided to take it further, as he also teaches nursing technician in the Institute the Zorsales, Leaving a legacy to your country through new professionals.
His desire to continue training does not stop despite the pandemic, as he prepares to study the mastery of Emergency and Intensive Care. “First God I will get it and I will continue to contribute to my nation.”
However, at this time their greatest desire is for Hondurans to continue practicing biosecurity measures to prevent further mourning and for both the general population and health professionals to have a morning to make their dreams come true. “It is up to everyone to control this pandemic“We have to be responsible.”