The patient's recovery from the disease that is killing chiefly the old offered some hope to health workers at Istanbul’s Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty hospital as they battle the outbreak, which risks hitting Turkey hard.
Suffering from hypertension, Gunduz, a farmer from Turkey’s southeastern city of Batman, was taken to hospital on March 31 with complaints of high fever and stomachache. She was discharged on Friday.Turkey has registered more than 47,000 COVID-19 cases — ranking it among the 10 most infected countries in the world. It has recorded over a thousand deaths and the disease is spreading fast.
The physicians are currently treating 210 patients with 30 others in intensive care. One building has been allocated to treat only medical workers.Isolated from their own families, some of the health workers stay in dorms or hotels to avoid spreading the disease to their loved ones.“There is no price for the service provided by health workers. They serve humanity.”
“We are taking all the protective measures but it is not guaranteed that we will not get infected,” he said. After being diagnosed with COVID-19, some patients are caught unprepared without their mobile phones or other personal belongings.
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