Care in a Crisis: Reflections from a ‘returned’ intensive care nurse
“These are as far from normal times as I have ever experienced in 40 years working for the NHS!”
“These are as far from normal times as I have ever experienced in 40 years working for the NHS!”
You have a weekly routine–work, school, friends, volunteering, church–but does your weekly routine include worrying about whether your church building will fall apart? That is Lilian Naluminoz’s concern each week. Each day Lilian walks into the Zambian bush to cut down a tree, which she burns int...
The two girls usually live at Holbrook Indian School, but now they walk to church to study online.
It’s 5am on a Sunday morning in early April. Although Fiji’s capital of Suva is in lockdown, 12-year-old Nasoni Junior is already awake and ready to feed the homeless on the city streets. Today, Junior is joining his parents as he has done so many times before, but this time he is more reluctant....
It's hard to knock on someone’s door, even if we already know them. In fact, it’s not even socially acceptable nowadays to just show up unexpectedly at someone’s house in case they are busy when we stop by. We must call and schedule a visit first. Add the need for social (physical) distancing, an...
I am at the end of a long battle against COVID-19 that has lasted nearly eight weeks. I still find it challenging to stand upright because I feel weak and suffer from vertigo, which makes the simplest daily chores risky. Even when I am sitting down, I still endure sudden headaches and a constant ...