Letter: Appreciate health professionals roanoke.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from roanoke.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
phokin
We deal primarily with lung disorders. We see a lot of acute respiratory distress syndrome, pulmonary hypertension, sepsis, a lot of patients who are in need of continuous dialysis, we call that. However, we have been exclusively COVID positive. As of the 13th of this month, we ve been doing this for 52 weeks. At first we took PUIs, or people under investigation, meaning we didn t know whether or not they were COVID positive. We were waiting for the test results. But we ve been taking only positives for, I don t even know, since the summer. It s really stressful. The patients that we re seeing are the sickest of the sick. We didn t have enough beds. There was a time when we were scrambling to find placements for the patients. And as a result, my colleagues and I have had to cross-train nurses over on the other side of the hospital.