When Sabrina Grodzinski returns home at the end of a 12-hour
shift in the coronavirus unit at Samson Assuta Ashdod
University Hospital, her three boys run to her for hugs. But they
are quickly reminded that they will have to wait. Mommy needs to shower before
they can touch her in case she has any traces of SARS-CoV-2 on her body or
clothes.
Grodzinski, an emergency medicine physician currently assigned
to the coronavirus unit at Assuta Ashdod, told The Jerusalem Post that when the hospital informed her in
January that she would work with coronavirus patients it was only theoretical.
The virus outbreak had just started, and she could not envision what this
meant. Now, treating coronavirus patients has become part of her daily
routine.
Although Grodzinski said that the hospital currently has enough
personal protective medical equipment, she fears that if the situation
continues much longer Assuta Ashdod could be at the same risk as many others of lacking the supplies
needed to ensure she is safe.
“I don’t have neurosis about the infection, but there are days
that I think, did my mask have a good seal? Or, I shower three times at work
before I come home. For the most part, it is OK, but if God forbid something
happened, I will think, ‘Oh my God, I brought something back to them.”
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