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This recognition is aimed at medical, nursing, auxiliary and other health personnel who have directly cared for infected patients.
The applause that Spanish health workers have received day after day in front of the doors of hospitals or from the balconies and windows of the homes of thousands of confined citizens has become this Tuesday a well-deserved award, that of the Concordia of the Princess Awards from Asturias.
And the word concord, according to the RAE dictionary, represents conformity, unity, something that these professionals have demonstrated from the first minute, who have given more than anything during the hard times of the pandemic, when they crowded into the the affected hospital corridors, when there were no more hands to care for.
How many people have they had to say goodbye to without a hug and how many tears have they had to shed because they have had to play husband, wife, son. The isolation of the sick in hospitals has forced them to act as family members or to be a bridge of transmission between them.
Sometimes they have lent their tablets and cell phones so that the sick could see their loved ones, and they have witnessed last scenes between children and parents.
And always all together, and in many cases without the love of their loved ones because the majority self-isolated from their family for fear of infecting it.
Professionals who have had to fire 63 healthcare workers. This was explained this Tuesday in Congress by the president of the General Council of Official Medical Associations (CGCOM), Serafín Romero, in the Commission for Social and Economic Reconstruction. He told the deputies: "They have a moral debt with health and healthcare workers."
That debt, despite this great prize, is still there because there is nothing that pays for their effort, their dedication, not looking out for themselves but for others, their emotion, their dedication, their sacrifice, their applause every time they gave a high...
They have been on the front line of battle, in a "war" that they have faced without ammunition, often unprotected, and that has taken its toll on them. As of May 29, 63 health workers had died of the total of 51.482 infected by covid-19.
But the citizens of this emotional Spain, with a lot of kisses, hugs and affection, a lot of talking, have not overlooked the staging of these professionals who have given a lesson in fortitude and knowing how to behave to the politicians, a tough class that Let's hope they don't forget in their memories because neither the health system nor they deserve to face another "war" like this without the necessary means.
