The infectious disease specialist was on the verge of jubilation when the pandemic broke out, but he decided to quit and be on the front line of the battle against COVID-19 in his oath.
Maria Bogoeva, a specialist in infected infections, is looking for her uniform and returning to her home in a provincial hospital in the western part of Bulgaria, where the coronavirus pandemic is taking place.
One year later, the 82-year-old doctor was first in line with the battle against Covid-19 in his oath.
There is one more legion of major doctors fighting against the “horror” of the virus in Bulgaria’s health care system.
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“¿Mi edad? Nee siento. I would like to work. If I want to be so outspoken, I’re right, ”said this energetic woman to AFP.
Bogoeva’s doctor said that he had no other option but to join the patients at Dupnitsa Hospital. Photo AFP
With his right hand, his joys and his determined miracles, he will pay homage to his “diaries”.
“Who works in the hospital does not want me to leave”, admits sonriendo.
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According to Bogoeva’s doctor, there is no option but to join the patients at the Dupnitsa Municipal Hospital, a municipality of 50,000 residents, located 60 kilometers east of the Sofia capital.
Staying at home without having to worry about getting sick while waiting for patients who need nothing more than their experience is simply “impossible”, insure.
One year later, the doctor of 82 years of age was on the first line of the battle against the covid-19 people in his oath. Photo AFP
“¿Los iba a dejar morir? The hospital does not have any other specialists in infections, and this is a sanitary crisis, ”he said.
Many of the retired physicians in Bulgaria have made the same decision in the last year, some of them paying with their own money.
“Immunity of course”
Another colleague of Bogoeva’s doctor at the Dupnitsa Hospital’s Infectious Diseases Department, a 15-year-old doctor who died at the hospital and was treated for the first virus infection.
But the octogenarian says that he has no choice but to follow that he has a simple surgical worm and a blue protector that is disinfected from water when.
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“I try to reach out to patients”, dice, hope to have the opportunity to live in a hospital.
It decides the treatment that will be administered in accordance with the precedents that the rest of the hospital staff will receive.
“It’s probably related to natural immunity that it has many infections in my life,” he said, pointing out that “there is no such thing as a virus” in the virus.
Bogoeva stopped dosing the protective rope at the end of his turn in a Covid-19 unit at Doupnitsa Hospital, a 50-strong municipality.
, 000 inhabitants who have cares desesperadamente de cuidadores. Photo AFP
Although it is acknowledged that it has some “inexplicable” about this virus and is concerned with the “horror of November”, when he “killed more patients during his career”.
“People of the same age, do not salvage pudimos”, lamenta.
El hospitaal gevestig desbordado, había pasientes “esperando en los pasillos”, rememora.
“The ambulances, family medicines we provide (that we administer to more patients) are stored on board”.
“The people we avoid”
Appreciate the actual respite, with only six patients in his pavilion, but know that it will not last long.
A new one with the new variants “sin duda está llegando”, dice antes de asegurar determinada: “¡La combatiremos!”
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In the small town of Dupnitsa, she and other health workers working against the susceptible virus have become more dangerous than admiration.
“The people we avoid, our miran as if we were extraterrestrials”, says with amargura.
It is one of a legion of major physicians who luchan against the “horror” of the virus in Bulgaria’s so-called health care system. Photo AFP
In these moments, Bogoeva refuges in the support of his family, even if in the lejanía.
He lives in the United States together with his nieces and nephews and his wife has moved to Sofia while calming the situation.
“Si me contagio, no perjudicaré a nadie”, saamgevat.