When there are gunshots and sirens, they, like the rest of the medical staff in the hospital, do not stop working. “The work does not stop,” said one of them. Only if the patient expresses his desire to go to the shelter, he is taken there. They are four medics from Kharkiv, doctors Svitlana Sumets, Tatyana Sinenko, Svitlana Tiahlo and sister Yulia Tymoshenko. Their responsibility is the treatment of tuberculosis.
“You take a patient’s blood, you hear the gunfire getting closer and closer, but you still take blood. We are working,” says Yuliya Tymoshenko, senior nurse of the Outpatient Department of the First Tuberculosis Dispensary in Kharkiv. Family doctor Svitlana Sumets adds here: in a moment of danger, doctors do not stop their work because they are negligent towards their health or the health of their patients. “But it’s because we’re so close to Russia that we can’t make it. From the moment the siren goes off, actually [raķetes] the flight is already over,” she says.
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