Nurse Shirley Kavanagh's life changed a week ago when two teenage boys started coughing at her on an empty train to work from Macquarie Park. 'She's a nurse. She's got COVID-19,' they taunted as they coughed | juliepower
Nurse Shirley Kavanagh's life changed a week ago when two teenage boys started coughing at her on an empty train to work from Macquarie Park. "She's a nurse. She's got COVID-19," they taunted as they coughed.
By the time Ms Kavanagh arrived for her night shift working with premature babies in Royal North Shore Hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, she was shaken."I felt vulnerable. I couldn't get myself together. I realised this is the new normal. I don't feel safe.
There was also an element of "racism on top of this ill-informed view", Mr Holmes said. "Nurses who have Asian appearance are copping it worse," he said.Ms Kavanagh's colleague Liz , told thethat while she was waiting for a bus to work from Manly on Sunday, March 29 a man walking along the Promenade made a detour towards her. He put his face close to hers and called her "a f--king idiot" before walking away.
She said nurses felt like they were playing "Russian roulette with the virus", trying to protect their tiny patients, themselves and their families. A nurse in the RNSH's emergency department was also physically threatened, confirmed a spokesperson for the Northern Sydney Local Health District. He said the attacks were "totally unacceptable".
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