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Nurse and mother Heba Shalan is putting her life on the line to care for COVID patients

28 January 2021

Heba Shalan is a mother and nurse from the Jabalia Refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. She is putting her life on the line, caring for patients with COVID-19 without adequate personal protective equipment and for very little pay. She is also struggling with a spiralling workload at home since schools closed because of the pandemic. Heba, like all Palestinians in Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza, is likely to face a long wait for a COVID-19 vaccine despite Israel having rolled out a record-setting vaccination drive. As of 21 January 2021, the Israeli gover… Video by YouTube channel.

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