The Homesick EMTs Of Manila Ease The Strain On Hospitals Coping With COVID
Their workload has doubled. They don't go home when their shifts end lest they infect family members. When a patient smiles, they say it makes all the sacrifices worthwhile.
Clarisa Andres, a petite 22-year-old, hasn't been home in over a month. She's homesick, but she says she can cope.
She's an emergency medical technician with the San Juan Early Response Network – one of the few women on the 63-member team – and the pandemic has amped up their work of responding to medical emergencies. They work 24-hour shifts, 7 days a week and when they're on call, they live in a dorm with other health-care workers.
Only now, some of them
