For the past two months, the world is dealing with the global pandemic and in this crucial time lakhs of people have been selflessly serving others day and night, without even caring about themselves. The frontline health workers are the new superheroes of the world.
The US has become the worst-hit country due to coronavirus as it reports over 2,000 death cases in 24 hours and in such times there are the frontline health workers all over the world who are coping up and are at the forefront to fight the pandemic.
Dr. Tazeen Beg (Anesthesiologist, Stony Brook University Hospital, Long Island, New York) is one such frontline health worker who shares her experience of dealing with the global pandemic and her patients on a daily basis.
Dr Tazeen in conversation with @ifaridoon over Instagram live explained her experience in dealing with coronavirus and how does she save herself from the disease.
What has been your last month’s experience in dealing with coronavirus?
Dr. Beg said to it that it has been very busy and she had to attend many patients and they are at the peak and are fighting to cure more than 400 coronavirus positive cases who are in her hospital.
How dangerous it becomes for her to deal with COVID-19 as she is an Anesthesiologist?
Dr. Beg: Her job is to give anesthesia, and does take care of all kinds of surgery.
How does she cope up as she gets in direct contact with coronavirus positive cases?
Dr. Beg: It becomes difficult as they put patients to sleep and for the routine they make them sleep first, intubate them, and keep a check that if they are breathing better and to put their longs to rest. The difficulty comes when they wake up the patient and to know if they will be able to wake up or not.
One can get coronavirus even when you are breathing when you are around positive cases as the air around makes it possible and makes it dangerous.
What can we expect about what is going to come next?
Dr, Beg said that ” We are fighting with something that we don’t even know what will come next and nobody knows what will happen next. She added to it that New York is the worst-hit place and it is in this way now that if you are in New York you will definitely be coronavirus positive.
How are doctors are dealing with patients who have minor symptoms?
The way they deal is that if a patient comes they assume they are positive and they just take a test of them.
Dr. Beg said that she has quarantined herself and her daughters cook for her and they’ve been doing all of it by themselves and they are also learning how to deal with a global pandemic.
