Personal stories

This section presents the personal stories of health workers at every level of the health system, and from many different countries within WHO/Europe.
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20-06-2020
Elena Neaga: A day in the life of a rural family doctor in Moldova

Elena Neaga is a family doctor in a rural area of the Republic of Moldova. Here, she shares the events of her day and her experience in providing health services to the community.
Anastasia Gonţa, primary health care nurse in the Republic of Moldova, chose not to emigrate

Ana, former nurse from the Republic of Moldova, now working as a carer in Italy

Dr Raikhan Kaltaevna Djuzenova is a senior doctor at Kokshe No. 2 family outpatient clinic in Kokshetau, Kazakhstan

Dr Ed Berends runs a health centre in Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Gay Lee is a ward sister in a hospice, caring for people at the end of their lives in London, United Kingdom

Dr Natalyia Chuiko practices paediatric neurology in a children’s polyclinic in Moscow, Russian Federation

Yann Krêter is an educator in a home for autistic adults in Geneva, Switzerland

Oydin Muhamed is a cook at a health centre in Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Dr Parvina Gunter is a lab worker at a health centre in Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Dr Strahil Efremov is an orthopaedic surgeon in a private hospital in Bulgaria

Katrin Osk Porgeirsdottir works at a forensic psychiatric unit in Iceland

Dr Nikolaj Bjerrum Hancock is a junior doctor at Glostrup Hospital Emergency Room in Copenhagen, Denmark

Dr Katrin Martinson is a general practioner working in Tallinn, Estonia

Dr Sofía Vázquez Navarrete is a specialist pathologist and the head of the Laboratory of Pathological Anatomy at the hospital of La Línea de la Concepción, Spain