Various Nurses' Stories During The COVID Pandemic, New Skills To Shaving Hair To Marrying Patients

Illustration (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - The chairman of the Indonesian Nurses Association, Harif Fadhillah, tells the unique stories of nurses who are in charge of serving COVID1-19 patients. There are nurses who are asked to shave the patient's hair, even to marry the patient he treats.

"There are also many unique things, previously nurses did not have the competence to shave their hair. Many patients were treated for a long time, one of them was at the RSCM, the condition of critical patients was treated for a long time until they finally recovered, then because they were long they asked the nurses to cut their hair," said Harif at the Merdeka Barat Forum. 9 which is monitored online in Jakarta, Antara, Wednesday, November 10.

Harif also said that some nurses even had to provide COVID-19 treatment to their own colleagues at the hospital where they worked.

The treatment is carried out over a long period of time until the colleague is finally able to recover and work together again.

Another story from the COVID-19 Emergency Hospital Volunteer Wisma Atlet Yogaditya Riza Aswar who is in charge of treating patients at Wisma Atlet to this day. He told me there was a nurse colleague who married a patient.

"There are also many volunteers at the Wisma. There are even nurses who marry patients when they are being treated. So it's not just to help, but if you say colleagues here help and find a mate," said Yogaditya.

He explained that many nurses at Wisma Atlet maintain close relationships with the patients they treat. Even when the patient has recovered and gone home, they still maintain a social relationship. He said not a few also considered them a friend, or even family.

Yogaditya revealed that currently 193 patients are being treated at the Wisma Atlet COVID-19 Emergency Hospital. The sloping number of COVID-19 cases in Indonesia has resulted in empty beds.

However, he reminded the entire community to remain vigilant and not to be carried away by the euphoria of the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia. He hoped that all Indonesians would continue to strictly implement health protocols to prevent the transmission of the virus.