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‘We Are Entering A Battle, And We Need A Shield to Protect Us’: One Doctor’s Reflection Story

May 17, 2020

  In a series of documenting the stories of health workers in Egypt, Dr. Ahmed Kholeif, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, tells Egyptian Streets what it feels like to work amid the Covid-19 crisis The truth is that all health workers are highly at risk of being infected. We are all involved in fighting this pandemic in many different ways; not just those that are working in direct contact with the patients. You enter the hospital everyday and meet several patients, their family members and companions, and also come across colleagues and nurses, which means that any one of them can be a potential source of risk and you can never isolate yourself. “You always feel that you at risk at any moment” You always feel that you are at risk at any moment and you don’t really know where it is coming from. For senior health workers, while they may not be much involved with the infected patients, they are the ones that mostly suffer from chronic illnesses. So when we get exposed to it, we are at more risk of being infected. Junior health workers, on the other hand,…


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