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Red Cross hospital doctor answers Covid-19 call despite cancer surgery, chemo and raising a 1-year-old

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Dr Kirstin Riley can’t be counted among the many South Africans complaining endlessly about the challenges they have to confront amid a pandemic, regardless of the trying circumstances she has found herself in.

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What has saddened her, however, is that due to physical distancing and other constraints during the Covid-19 lockdown, the hospital hasn’t quite been the ’’place of laughter and hugs’’ it usually is. Commenting on the current work environment amid a pandemic, she said: “We've gone from a place of laughter and hugs to avoiding each other through social distancing.“Even though we somehow still made our ward a happy and joyful place , we can see the changes in our kids. It's not the same.Nevertheless, she knows all too well Covid-19 is no laughing matter. Like all front-line workers, Riley’s greatest fear is bringing home an illness and infecting her family, especially her daughter.

’’To have cancer, be on active treatment and know that I have a decreased immune system is a scary thought at the best of times. Throw in a pandemic, and it can all seem a bit too much.

 

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