NEW YORK (NYTIMES) - Lying in a hospital bed in March, Madhvi Aya understood what was happening to her.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
She had been a doctor in India, then trained to become a physician assistant after she immigrated to the United States. She had worked for a dozen years at Woodhull Medical Centre, a public hospital in Brooklyn, where she could see the coronavirus tearing a merciless path through the city.
Health care systems by and large have not publicly revealed the identities of those employees, who include Kious Kelly, a nurse manager at Mount Sinai West in Manhattan, and Dr Ronald Verrier, a surgeon at St Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx. "She was always there for us, whenever we wanted," her husband said. But when she got sick,"no one was next to her," he said.
Aya's daughter, Minnoli, said her emotions have ranged from intense grief to disbelief. She thinks about becoming a doctor herself and is angry at a health care system that she believes did not protect its front-line workers. Sometimes she is angry at her mother for not coming home.There is no way to determine how Aya became infected. While she worked at Woodhull in early March, front-line employees had not yet been instructed to wear protective masks for all patients, one staff member said.
She began coughing around the time of her last shift on March 12, Raj Aya said. He drove her to Woodhull the next evening so a doctor could examine her, picking her up many hours later, after she was tested.
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