World Health Organization (WHO) has set the year 2020 as the international year of nurses and midwives. Nurses and midwives play a vital role in providing health services and with the present pandemic, we are ever grateful to have these professionals on the field of action. Today, we acknowledge and appreciate the work of nurses in caring for those who have been infected with the novel corona virus and other severe health related cases, the midwives caring for the pregnant women, doctors, physiotherapists, pathologists, microbiologists and many others who are at the frontline helping to curb COVID-19 pandemic and other diseases. To those that have lost the battle to the disease in the wake of their work, losing their families as a result of isolation and quarantine, we can’t thank you enough.
It is time for everyone to be responsible too:
– Do not panic or fret. Always provide in anyway possible for the nurses and doctors on a 24 or 48hr shift, unable to get the much needed time for self care.
– Keep to the recommendations of serial hand washing, use of sanitizers, refrain from touching nose, mouth and eyes.
– Do not overwhelm those at the frontline with easily treated at home cases. The hospital is not safe for you this period either.
– Stay at home for them as those at the frontline continue to work to control this menace from spreading further.
Stay safe everyone!
