Somos FCC - Nº14

not trust it at all”, he says. “We must protect ourselves and those around us by taking the right precautions and following the advice of health agencies,” he adds. For all those who are part of this great team, during these months, the most difficult thing for them has been the personal situations and the dra- mas, as well as combining the per- sonal situation of those who have fell ill with the professional burdens they “We had to learn week by week; that creates more insecurity when facing problems, because what was appli- cable one day, was not the same for the week, and that created absolute confusion”, according to Julio, ano- ther of the physicians in charge. The entire medical team agreed that most of the staff did not stop working because their jobs were considered essential. “We have experienced moments of anguish because of the deaths we have had and because of the lack of rigour and awareness of the scope of the situation. Neverthe- less, we have struggled to do what we could to ensure that everyone was taken care of and to encoura- ge and sustain people’s spirits more than anything else because viruses are difficult to hunt,” they say. Feelings that the pandemic has provoked Dr. Silvia Montes points out that “at the moment we are in the process of assuming what we have expe- rienced. I think we are still aware of what has happened and how we have gone, day by day, doing what we could and coping as best as pos- sible, but it has not been easy, in fact I think we are still in it. We have lived through the problem of the disease, family problems and the day-to-day life of the people we have helped, guided and reassured, and this is the most important part of what we have done. I personally have very focused feelings. For Dr. Echevarría this could be sum- marized in two words: sadness and had to face. Out of 14 colleagues in the Medical Services, five have been affected by coronavirus. All of them have lived with great sadness what was happening around them. They have had to face and adapt to the- se circumstances. The uncertainty is something that has impressed them the most. “This is a new and unk- nown disease and those of us, the professionals, in the front line, had very little knowledge about it, we did not know how it was going to evolve. P E O P L E S 35 P E O P L E S