Her name is Iryna Lysa, she is young and smiling, and she was a doctor who treated my 71-year-old mother after she was admitted to a hospital with COVID-19 last November. This and Iryna’s Viber profile photo was all I knew about her. Nevertheless, as my father and I got infected as well she gave us prescriptions for treatment according to our tests which I sent to her. To help relatives of those being treated in her hospital was Iryna’s own initiative.
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A medical worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) walks in front of the entrance to the red zone at an infectious diseases department of the Kiev city clinical hospital 17, where patients suffering from the coronavirus disease are treated, in Kyiv on Jan. 14, 2021.
