Santo Domingo.-A tree at the Francisco Moscoso Puello Hospital was the scene of multiple scenes of joy and pain from relatives who day by day waited for information from their patients who had been infected with the disease.
At the forefront was the Covid-19 unit, which received patients not only from Santo Domingo but from other provinces of the country.
Indhira Jiménez, who had been in the Covid-19 area of that hospital since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, described the dismantling of the unit as a “relief” for her and her colleagues.
“Now that the unit is being dismantled, one feels between nostalgia, happiness, joy, respite, tranquility… there are many mixed feelings,” he told EL DÍA.
He remembers that at first it was overwhelming for them, having the room full of patients, without having an answer about the disease, where they saw them constantly die and fight battles, which he described as traumatic.
He argued that they reached a point where they considered it would not happen, because when one wave went down, soon another was activated.
Dismount drives
— I breathe
“It’s like when you walk in a desert, thirsty and when you have no hope of finding any water, you find an oasis. Really, for us it is a respite”, said Indira Jiménez.
