Coronavirus Global Conversations: Remembering medics who have died from Covid-19
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
We hear about Sophie Fagan, a nurse in London for over 50 years; Dr. J Ronald Verrier, a critical care surgeon in New York; and Vicenzo Leone, a beloved GP in Northern Italy. Their relatives talk about their enduring pride, but also the shock of losing them to Covid-19. And hospital chaplains talk to us about the religious, spiritual and emotional support they are providing for patients and their loved ones. Also, mothers in Spain tell us how the 40-day lockdown is emotionally impacting their children.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Nula McGovern and we're bringing you coronavirus global conversations here on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.0 | As countries around the world continue to cope with rising debt tolls, we hear tributes from family |
| 0:15.1 | members of doctors and nurses across the world who have died from COVID-19. |
| 0:20.3 | Plus, have Spanish parents coped after keeping children inside for 40 days of lockdown? |
| 0:26.0 | It had its ups and downs, but my husband plays the guitar, so like he would give them a music class and we would do a dance class or we did a treasure hunt. |
| 0:37.8 | This is a stressful time for many of us, especially for those who are ill or have loved ones in hospital. |
| 0:49.0 | Apart from medical staff, cleaners, ambulance drivers and caterers, hospitals often employ |
| 0:55.0 | chaplains to provide spiritual advice on behalf of different faiths and |
| 0:59.3 | non-religious organizations. |
| 1:02.0 | Lindsay Van Dyke, for instance, she is a humanist organizations. in the UK. While Rabbi Rachel Van Tyne is a Jewish chaplain at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, |
| 1:16.4 | the most affected city in the world. We brought them together to discuss how they're helping during a pandemic. |
| 1:23.0 | And here's Rachel first, explaining what it's like |
| 1:25.8 | to act as a bridge between relatives |
| 1:28.0 | and a family member at the end of their life. |
| 1:31.1 | It feels like very sacred work. thinking about a family. They wanted a |
| 1:36.1 | rabbi to offer prayers outside of their father's room so we can you know stand basically outside of the door and look through |
| 1:44.2 | the window and for several days I had gone to this particular patient's room and |
| 1:49.6 | stood outside and shared some some Jewish prayers and some prayers for my heart and watched staff care for this patient and it was it felt very holy and loving to be able to call a family and say the staff really cared so compassionately and lovingly for your loved one. |
| 2:08.0 | Being able to offer some of the details to add a visual to something I think can provide families with some |
| 2:16.6 | comfort at such a distressing time. Yes absolutely I can relate to that it's |
| 2:21.6 | absolutely hard to of course not be able to see somebody |
| 2:24.2 | and particularly the farewells and the goodbyes. I think that's very much key. If you don't |
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