Health workers get candid about COVID-19 related struggles

With just a glimpse of the daily news from around the world, persons can easily deduce that the fight against COVID-19 has not been an easy one, especially for health care professionals. In fact, it has been more than exhausting for some who are continually strategizing in hopes of coming up with tactical measures that could help to advance the gains made thus far.

In so doing, many health workers on the frontlines, including our own Dr. Zulfikar Bux, have been under immense pressure. “I can’t recall the last time I had a good night’s rest. I constantly worry about my fellow health workers, my patients, our country and last but not least, my family,” he intimated in his column of Sunday September 27, 2020. The weekly KN contributor candidly revealed that “This pandemic has taken a toll on most of us but no one will understand the impact it’s having on health workers unless they are in their shoes.”

But as if the work itself was not hard enough during this pandemic time, Dr. Bux, an Emergency Medicine Specialist, revealed that “What’s even worse is the awful treatment that we often receive by those around us. I have personally copped more abuse and disregard than any other period in my practice,” he added. A number of his colleagues, he confided, have been quietly sharing similar sentiments and this, he noted, “is slowly taking a toll on us.” On a daily basis, the ER is bursting at the seams and it was pointed out that “the number of patients with COVID-19-like symptoms keeps increasing and we are running out of space to see them.”

(Kaieteur News)