My colleagues all call me ‘ma’ – meet the hero nurse who drove through the night to get her patients to life-saving surgery | Health24com
When two Eastern Cape-based patients urgently needed to be taken to Cape Town for life-saving transplant surgeries, there was only one person for the job. That's when Sister Salome Siebritz got the call:"Sister, your child needs you now. I know you’ll make a plan."“My colleagues all address me as ‘ma’. Whenever someone has a problem, I always make it mine. It’s just who I am. I’m very close to my patients; I will go out of my way to help them,” Sister Salome Siebritz tells us.
But that excitement was soon dampened – the last flight from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town had taken off minutes after the patients were contacted. Cally’s aunt, Mercia Williams, joined them on the journey and shared the driving. The patients eventually passed out in the back seat, but fortunately Siebritz and Mercia were too excited to even think about sleep.
“I remember arriving in Cape Town at 04:50, and being shocked at all the cars on the road. I called Alexia from Netcare because of the panic that suddenly hit me.”Alexia Michaelides, one of Netcare’s transplant coordinators, guided Siebritz and Mercia all the way to the entrance of Christiaan Barnard Hospital and even had breakfast organised for the ladies when they arrived at the hospital. Siebritz couldn’t have been more grateful.
For Siebritz, being a nurse is more than just providing physical support and administering medication. The need for compassion is necessary, according to her, and when I ask her about the toll it takes on her, she gracefully replies: “There is none.”"My job isn’t stressful. I love people,” she says. “Your attitude about your job depends on how you approach your patients. Sometimes they’re having an off-day and you need to step up and lift their spirits.
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