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In Aragón 2.000 people had ostomies, 1.400 of them in Zaragoza.
The covid-19 pandemic has meant a great emotional burden for the 2.000 people with ostomies in Aragon – 1.400 of them in Zaragoza – and has caused an increase in situations such as anxiety or depression, which stoma care nurses have also suffered when seeing limited their ability to monitor and relate to patients.
An ostomy patient has a stoma (or new hole) through which the body's waste (feces or urine) comes out, which is collected through devices or collection bags. This year, and coinciding with World Ostomy Patient Month, patient associations, together with Proyecto Gesto and the Hollister laboratory, have promoted the 'Put a bag in your life' campaign. Therefore, through the video 'More human than ever. As close as ever, more than 50 patients and nurses, including several from Aragon, try to make the ostomy visible.
"Health professionals have lived through really difficult experiences this year in all the hospitals in Zaragoza," explained Irene Oto, stoma nurse at the Miguel Servet University Hospital in Zaragoza and member of Gesto. For patients, she said, "it is complicated on an emotional level, because they have to face a very abrupt change in life." But professionals "have also suffered great emotional stress" because, especially at the beginning of the state of alarm, "many of the consultations had to be telematic."
