Bearing witness to a pandemic BUPA | SANITAS
A time of fast learning and great camaraderie
maría gonzález Nurse Hospital cima Sanitas
I am a theatre nurse and during the pandemic our hospital was a hospital of reference for covid. That meant we took patients from both the public and the private sector. Our hospital has six floors. It isn’t very big. But we do a lot of surgery. We have ten operating rooms and around 87 beds. We had to turn these operating rooms into intensive care units, especially the recuperation areas and another part that was more for patient induction. We put intubated patients there. We even had to turn anaesthetic machines into respirators. When I got ill at the end of January/ beginning of February I was very ill, but Covid was still quite uncommon. I personally had symptoms: I felt breathless, I was very tired and I had a temperature of 38.5 °C. I spent some days in bed. I hardly ever get that sick. I spent two days sweating, feeling awful and had a dry cough.
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