A traumatic night shift

MADRID — SPAIN

mª eugenia fernández Healthcare Supervisor Sanitas Healthcare Funding

«I work in management and when the Covid crisis got worse I saw that they didn’t have enough staff in the hospitals and I volunteered to cover shifts where it was needed. I was at the Virgen del Mar hospital. Now I just need to rest, be with my family, read a book or just sleep. I feel such pain because I have seen terror on people’s faces, like in a war. I won’t forget them, and I have my memories in a journal, because each one had their own story and they touched my heart. I remember a woman who was widowed. She hung around days after she had been discharged. She was afraid to go home because her husband wouldn’t be there».