Region One frontline nurse says COVID-19 toughest challenge yet
Shonette Francis
December 21, 2020
Shonette Francis, a nurse at the Kumaka District Hospital, is one of several assigned to taking care of isolated COVID patients in the Moruca sub district of Region One. Of the four years she has been in the profession, this year has been the toughest so far, but she is no quitter.
The hospital, she disclosed, is already understaffed so when it was asked which nurses would work with COVID patients, only a few nurses responded to the call. Francis said that although they were given a choice, she felt as though she had no option, being one of the few nurses who hadn’t a family to take care of. She admitted that although she was worried for her own safety, she accepted the new challenge.
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