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Public coronavirus the nurse who missed her honeymoon and continued to work: "you finish exhausted and so, day after day"

Madrid

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Jose Carmona@JoseCarmonaGilo

She is agitated and in a hurry, because she starts work at 2:00 p.m. and there is barely half an hour left. She prefers to go early because she wants to arrive earlier and check the environment, which lately has been saturated: "Yesterday we did 200 tests in the afternoon alone," she recounts by phone while she speaks hastily.

Carolina Redondo, 38, is responsible for nursing at the San Blas de Parla Health Center in Madrid and is exhausted. These are hard times for everyone; Something else for the toilets. His head is saturated and his dreams, he says, consist of seeing himself again doing a coronavirus detection test. His mouth, now awake, gives a voice to the health workers, who are facing an unexpected sixth wave.

"I can assure you that if you attend to the line of patients, which goes around the block, you cannot answer the phone", he says, responding with a bit of sarcasm, to Ayuso's statements in which he blamed the toilets for the saturation of Madrid's public healthcare.

— Sorry to butt in. Remind him how you spent your honeymoon. Her husband Rubén alleges that he cannot avoid participating while the hands-free is on.

With a somewhat flushed voice, Carolina recounts that, married a month ago, she canceled her honeymoon and her 15-day leave consented to phone conversations for hours that they could not prevent her even going to her center three times to help in coordination, unbridled by visits.

— He has lost 15 kilos in two years —. Ruben says again. "Well, it's just that I'm naturally thin," his wife replies somewhat embarrassed. — Last year I was very bitter and hardly had a social life. It has taken its toll on me emotionally. I couldn't be from home to work and from work to home. I requested psychological help because I was very ill and they put my feet on the ground — recalls the nurse.

Now he takes it with a little more humor and appeals for unity among his colleagues, although it does not mean that a few days ago he wrote a letter to remind patients and politicians of the mental exhaustion of workers toilets, who have gone from being heroes applauded on the balconies to being the suspects for the collapse of the health centers.

"People are made appointments to later be canceled or their appointments modified to later dates, which causes them to attend the "urgent" Health Center to be treated as soon as possible, adding more delaying those who are scheduled and adding to the already existing queue, added to the queue for vaccinations, administrative procedures and tests, coming to wait one or two more hours to be seen", denounces the nurse in her missive.