DAVID ERICKSON
Editor s note: This is the second part in a two-part Missoulian investigation into how nurses are faring during the pandemic in Montana while being denied hazard pay by their employers.
Working during a deadly pandemic, with the stress of trying to protect themselves from the virus and having to watch patients suffer anxiety-wracked deaths, is taking a huge mental toll on nurses in Montana.
Adding to that pain, almost all of them have been denied hazard pay in union negotiations with their employers. We should have hazard pay, said Geri Unbehend, an emergency-room registered nurse at Community Medical Center in Missoula. Anyone working in the hospital should be getting hazard pay. Housekeepers who have to clean those rooms should be getting it. It can affect anybody.
BJP Accuses TMC Leaders Of Taking Covid-19 Vaccine Shots Meant For Healthcare Workers
BJP state unit president Dilip Ghosh accused TMC leaders of receiving Covid-19 vaccine shots because of which many healthcare workers could not take the jab File photo Outlook Web Bureau 2021-01-17T19:32:17+05:30 BJP Accuses TMC Leaders Of Taking Covid-19 Vaccine Shots Meant For Healthcare Workers outlookindia.com 2021-01-17T21:27:24+05:30
The BJP accused several TMC leaders of administering COVID-19 vaccine shots, which were meant for healthcare personnel and frontline workers leading to a shortage of doses in West Bengal.
On the opening day of the nationwide vaccination programme, several TMC leaders, including two MLAs took the COVID-19 vaccine shot in Purba Bardhaman district. Due to this, several healthcare workers claimed that they could not get the vaccine shot, even though they were asked to.
ICU nurse Jess Schreiber
âBut in the end, itâs like weâre fighting an enemy that we canât win against, and thatâs what we see on a daily basis,â said Schreiber, a critical care nurse at the hospital.
During her 12-hour shift, Schreiber typically cares for two or three patients at one time, her days filled with multiple emergent procedures . and âa lot of times death.â
And with many of those patients spending long periods of time in the hospital, those treating them tend to form bonds with them and their families â making the losses that much harder to deal with.
As India kicked off the world's biggest Covid-19 vaccination drive, a frontline sanitation worker at Delhi AIIMS, Manish Kumar, received the first jab against the deadly respiratory disease.
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