Meet Dr. Zafia Anklesaria: A 35-year-old pregnant doctor navigating the COVID-19 fight in low income Los Angeles by lucy_nicholson and kristinacooke
It was not until she was back in her office and had removed most of her protective equipment that he made his presence known.Anklesaria cleans her hands after intubating a COVID-19 patient.
"The socio-economic class that we serve, people tend to live in close quarters, they don’t really have the privilege of good social distancing, and they are tending to get more infected as a result," Anklesaria said. After getting an update from the night shift she begins her rounds, donning and doffing her personal protective equipment as she enters and exits patients' rooms. Nurses check on her regularly, making sure she is hydrated, properly protected and takes breaks to eat.Anklesaria attends to COVID-19 patients.
Still, there are physical limitations: she is slowly finding it harder to stay on her feet for long periods of time and often comes home with backache.Anklesaria removes a tracheostomy tube from COVID-19 patient Vicente Arredondo, 65. When she returned home, exhausted, her husband Aryan Jafari, 30, held back the dog as she dashed to the shower. She initially brought up the possibility of isolating herself from him, but he wouldn't hear of it.
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