Sinaloa.- Daniel Navarro-Romerohe is a young man paramedic of the Escuinapa Red Cross Delegation that has made in the face of the health emergency by covid-19an experience that has given him great growth as a human being and has reinforced his vocation to serve his community.
The coordinator of the Red Cross Youth in Escuinapa and paramedic of this worthy institution reported that since the pandemic began in 2019, it was like a very large wave of concerns and uncertainty, they did not have the experience, nor the sufficient resources to deal with the health emergency by Covid-19.
“We faced the pandemic at first with fear, uncertainty, but always with our heads held high to go out and serve people in times of pandemic, because we are nobody to judge people. Because there were many doctors who refused to treat covid-19 patients, for fear of getting infected.
That was not our case, since we went to the homes, we saw that they really occupied the attention, we transferred them to medical units, since their condition was mostly serious, many died and we did it with a simple mask and a common and current robe”, he pointed out.
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He commented that on many occasions there were patients who died in the service (ambulance), before arriving at the hospital, they no longer presented vital signs, they only provided those that were allowed, because they were not allowed to carry out resuscitation maneuvers due to contagion issues, protocols for personal care.
“And yet that courage arose and we broke that protocol to save people’s lives, we went all the way doing CPR, we had a capsule that we put on the patient and with that we felt safe, we arrived at the hospital doing maneuvers with the doctors from the hospital and in some cases people managed to get ahead and others unfortunately did not,” said the young paramedic.
Navarro Romero said that at first they faced the health emergency with fear, because they did not know and did not have adequate training, little by little they learned about the disease, its evolution, and the courses that were offered to them, they were able to face it. “We have already lost our fear in a few words, with the proper training we attended to all the people who requested it.”
In 2021, the Escuinapa Red Cross Delegation provided care for around 50 patients with covid-19 in a pre-hospital service, but there were many more cases of transfers or hospital units or specialized studies.
“To talk about Covid-19 is to talk about mixed feelings. The pandemic taught me human nature, seeing older adults who left them to their fate with illness and alone in a house, that makes me very sad and angry, that’s when we as the Red Cross give it all the desire to be as human as possible, to provide quality care,” he said.
But there is also the happy side, “I have had many services where relatives of patients, after giving them the service, come and hug us. Once we arrive at the hospital and hand the patient over to the doctor, many times we go out, rest in the ambulance trembling with emotions, and that is when the relatives arrive and on many occasions they hug us and break free crying. One tries to be strong not to cry in front of them, but we are human and sometimes we let go crying next to the relatives on many occasions that he was saved and on others because he died.
Other of his anecdotes that have been marked in his life story was the following; “The hospital is very strict regarding security protocols and we, as paramedics, had the ease of entering and leaving the hospital area, and in times of pandemic, family members who were outside sometimes approached us crying asking us to deliver letters to the patient. they had a boarding school.
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We were practically the courier service, we would give the message to the patient, who when they heard about their relatives cried and answered them, we wrote their messages on napkins, gloves or wherever they could be written, they cried and we along with them. All this with a certain distance so as not to risk infecting them. All of these were very nice experiences.”
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