A tribute with a difference has popped up in Melbourne
Emotional tributes to health workers around the world toiling on the front lines of the battle against coronavirus have included people singing from their balconies and entire cities of people applauding.
Health practitioners traditionally worried about being a threat to patients, especially in the operating theatre, but that had changed with this disease. “Suddenly the patients were potentially a threat to us.” While most of us are focused on virus numbers reaching a point when restrictions can be lifted, he and his colleagues are looking beyond that, to how they will manage the backlog of surgery that has mounted up during shutdown. He is conscious of the many people with cancer or living in extreme pain, desperate for surgery that has been put on hold.
Stephanie Russell, a cleaner at Royal Melbourne Hospital, is among health care workers whose portrait is part of the Parkville photo gallery.The roles played by those in the pictures are varied, including cleaners and clinicians, nurses and doctors, researchers and midwives. The myriad of faces is moving - some wearing masks, others not - underlining the many critical contributions made in an effort to keep us safe.
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