A small text placed on an Internet social network represents an important message that shows the human and professional value of the Health workers of Ciego de Ávila, in view of the rise in cases of COVID-19 and its consequences.
“Avilanian People: We, the doctors, nurses and other health workers, have sworn to be by your side until the last drop of blood falls… We will not give up now or ever, Ciego de Ávila!”
This is how Dr. Roberto Ruso, first degree specialist in Internal Medicine at the Provincial Hospital Dr. Antonio Luaces Iraola, in Ciego de Ávila, posted on his Facebook profile. He contracted the virus last April when he was trying to save a patient who was positive for COVID-19.
He beat the disease and immediately returned to his combat position.
The risk of contagion of transmissible diseases is a danger that medical and paramedical personnel assume since they enter to work in any instance of the Health system.
It is a conscious act because the most humane of professions has been chosen, whose philosophy is to overcome pain and death at any cost.
Faced with the infection of several workers in the Avilanian health system, in this new wave of cases of COVID-19, those who remain working, do so with total commitment.
Stopping the chain of contagion and attending to every sick person in need is the premise for doctors, nurses, technicians and administrative staff in Ciego de Ávila.
The COVID-19 shakes the Avilanian territory, but with much more strength the army of white coats prevails, declaring themselves as warriors in combat to defeat a virus as invisible as it is deadly.
