What it's like to treat Covid-19 in New York: Zimbabwean doctor tells her story

“The hardest thing for me to digest is just how incredibly sad and lonely I perceive our patients to be in this tough time of their lives — and to be fighting alone without family, as we cannot allow visitors ... It makes me sad,” she said.

While safety is key for health-care workers because they are at the highest risk of infection, she said their mental health cannot be ignored. “This stance saves you from being infected and potentially falling out of the available pool of providers during the pandemic, becoming the vector spreading the virus between patients, and also decreases your chances of bringing it home to your loved ones.

Back home in Zimbabwe, meanwhile, doctors on Sunday took the government to court over its failure to provide protective clothing to about 1,500 doctors, almost 15,000 nurses and general staff on the front line.

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