There are about 30,000 Filipino nurses in the United Arab Emirates, many of them working in the front lines. One of them proclaims she is an Overseas Filipino Warrior. COVID19 Read this in-depth piece by Rappler's Jojo Dass:
Filipino nurses in the UAE are grateful that unlike their counterparts in hard-hit European countries, and even back home in the Philippines, they are relatively safe because of the government’s quick response to the COVID-19 crisis.
. Owing to strict privacy laws here, whether any of them were nurses could not immediately be ascertained.“It’s been a time of hustle and bustle in our emergency department,” Mark Lester Perez of Tagaytay City and a nurse at a hospital in“Nurses like me are getting ill. We have a shortage of staff right now some are on quarantine as they have been exposed to positive COVID-19 cases,” Perez said.
“Myself and 4 other nurses are waiting for the test. I hope it turns out negative so I can resume work and take care of our patients again,” he said.“Scariest experience for me,” said Erma Gallardo Quismundo of Pagsanjan, Laguna, “was when a patient and a staff were having symptoms that could lead to positive test results.”
Working at a cosmetic dentistry clinic, Michelle Bernardo of Bacoor, Cavite said she, too, has been having goosebumps.
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