One of the patients of coronavirus disease in the country, shared a story how she experienced battling against the deadly disease that killed 33 victims and infected around 462 people in the Philippines alone.

It can be remembered that President Rodrigo Duterte, placed the nation under enhance community quarantine to contain the spread of the killer coronavirus that compromised the people of the national health crisis.

According to the Department of Health (DOH), most of the victims are the senior citizens and the people with previous health issues, are considered susceptible with coronavirus disease. Aside from them, there are some other people who are at risk of the COVID-19 pandemic, these are the health workers who are the front liner in the fight against the coronavirus.

They are the doctors and nurses in the hospital who are in direct contact with the patients due to their nature of work and the hospital staffs who are tasked to handle the medical facilities.

They are the people risking their lives in order to save others during the crisis. As a matter of fact, there are doctors who reportedly died after contracting coronavirus from the patients.

In the Philippines, one of the country’s medical doctor have experienced fighting between life and death against the deadly coronavirus disease, identified by the health department as patient #194 in the official health record, Dr. Grace Caras-Torres.

According to Dr. Torres, she was infected of the disease after her operation with one of the patients of coronavirus. She said that she had experienced the initial symptoms like of a high grade fever, body pain and unusual headache. At first, she thought it was chikungunya. But after learning that her colleague also suffers the same, that’s the time she suspected that she was infected with coronavirus.

She then thinks of her family as she had in direct contact with them, including her 4-year-old child and her senior citizen parents.

She noted that she prayed to God to spare her family from the infection. She immediately decided to undergo home quarantine. She said that her colleagues were already intubated and four (4) of them already died of the disease.

On the process of self-quarantine, she thought she was already healed, but she experienced loose bowel movement. She then remembered the case in Wuhan, that gastrointestinal symptoms indicated the worsening condition.

She thinks she will die but she said, she is not yet ready. Her family needs her. She is hoping that she and all other patients will recover from the deadly disease.

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