before all making full recoveries. It gave her an and as a first responder. “The conflict of our job was that we desperately wanted to help others but didn’t want to harm our families,” she said. “We were under pressure, working 12-hour shifts and overtime. “When there were critical cases and I saw a patient struggling to breathe, it felt like I was suffocating with them,” Ms Al Hammadi said. A career in medicine and a commitment to help others was the Emirati’s childhood dream, and also her father’s wish. But during her studies at Higher Colleges of Technology – Dubai Women’s College, her father died