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Italy's medical workers: 'We became heroes but they've already forgotten us'
May 25, 2020
Doctors and nurses in Italy have been celebrated as heroes for treating desperately ill coronavirus patients.
But now, they are suffering.
Lombardy was the hardest-hit region in the world and medics are struggling to hold it together.
Paolo Miranda is an intensive care nurse in Cremona. "I'm more irritable," he says. "I get angry easily and I pick fights."
A few weeks ago, Paolo decided to document the bleak situation inside the intensive care unit by taking photographs. "I never want to forget what happened to us. It will soon become history," he tells me.
Image copyright Paolo Miranda Image caption "We had an enemy to fight. Now that I have time to reflect, I feel so lost, aimless."
In his photos, he wants to show how his colleagues are coping with 'Phase 2' as life goes back to normal in Italy.
"Although the emergency is slowing down, we feel surrounded by darkness," he says. "It's like we are full of wounds. We carry everything we've seen inside us."
Nightmares and night sweats
It's a feeling echoed by Monica Mariotti, also an intensive care nurse. "Things are much harder now than during the crisis," she says.
"We had an enemy to fight. Now that I have time to reflect, I feel so lost, aimless."
During the crisis, they were overwhelmed and had no time to think. But as the strain of the pandemic fades, so does the adrenaline.
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