Covid-19 might be scary for most, but a Durban nurse is determined to recover and get back to doing what she loves.
Portia Maloyi, 42, has been a nurse since 2011 and describes joining the profession as the best decision she had ever made.
“I worry about my mother and my family because I can tell they are scared, they don’t know what will happen to me because this virus could kill me. But they call and check on me every day,” Maloyi said.Maloyi told the Independent on Saturday she was tested when she noticed she had flu-like symptoms, such as a cough and headaches. She later lost her sense of taste and smell, experienced severe headaches and fatigue.
“However, I’m doing well, or rather let me say coping under the circumstances. I hope I make it out of this alive because immediately after I’ve fully recovered, I’m going back to work and serving my community,” said Maloyi. Maloyi’s diagnosis has not deterred her from wanting to be a “heroine” in her community - just as her mother, Khaukanani Hilda Maloyi, was during her nursing days.Her mother, 64, and retired, planted the idea of nursing in her mind after finishing matric. She completed her four-year nursing course at the Far North Nursing School in Limpopo.“My mom is a hero back home in Thohoyandou because she’s helped a lot of people. I saw that from her and wanted to be a hero in my own right.
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