The Struggles of Covid-19 Nurses
It has been chaotic for the past few months since the emergence of Covid-19 disease. It rapidly spread from country to country, infecting individuals and damaging human lives causing enormous loss not just to specific countries but to a worldwide population making it a one deadly Pandemic. Despite the efforts made by the government to implement measures here in the Philippines, there is still a continuous rise in the number of cases everyday. While a number of recoveries increases, the mortality also increases. And with this; the healthcare workers are the ones carrying the heaviest burden, especially the nurses who provides bedside care to admitted patients. Photo credits: Jap Bestoyong Nowadays, we are considered as the essential workers, the front-liners, the modern-day heroes, but only few understand our day-to-day struggles. We get applause and praises but also get discriminated, treated as disease “carriers”. Some see us as mercenaries, "paid" to do our job a...