Heilie Combrinck<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nSolly is verantwoordelik vir Relay-ambulansdiens se noodhulpopleiding en kli\u00ebntediens en hy dien as skakelpersoon wat ondersteuning bied aan mense wat positief toets vir COVID-19 sowel as aan hul families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy raad is gratis, dit is \u2018n diens wat Relay lewer om lewens te help red deur mense te help om ingeligte keuses te maak. Dit is so belangrik dat mense in hierdie pandemie \u2018n ingeligte keuse moet maak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBaie mense soek raad, maar leen ongelukkig hul ore uit aan raad wat nie regtig help nie. Mense moet versigtig wees om nie WhatsApp boodskappe aan te stuur met inligting wat nie medies bewys kan word nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNog \u2018n uitdaging waarmee ons byna daagliks te doen kry, is dat mense bang is om hospitaal toe te gaan. Teen die tyd wat hulle uiteindelik die ambulans bel, is dit laat \u2013 in baie gevalle te laat. Ons moedig mense aan wat positief toets vir die virus, om vroegtydig hulp te ontbied.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Solly stap ook die pad saam met mense wat in die proses van herstel is asook diegene wat lank reeds herstel het, maar sielkundig nog sukkel. Selfs familielede wat raad nodig het, kan Solly bel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie bestuur het ges\u00ea \u2018\u2026Solly, jy hou mos van gesels, praat met die mense, gee hulle die regte raad, gee hulle hoop.\u2019 So, my doel met my gesprekke is om met mediese kennis gemoedsrus aan mense te bring. Hoe gouer iemand wat positief toets en mediese versorging benodig dit kry, hoe beter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c\u2019Sielkundig is hierdie virus ook \u2018n groot vyand omdat \u2018n mens nie weet waar jy aansteek nie en wat die uitwerking daarvan op jou gaan wees nie. Ek s\u00ea baie vir mense hulle moet nie die ding krag in hulle koppe gee nie. Fight<\/span> dit met die regte keuses.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\nOm vir \u2018n nooddiens te werk, was van kleintyd af Solly se droom. Sy droom is amper gekelder toe hy na skool aansoek gedoen het vir opleiding by die ambulansdiens en daar vir hom ges\u00ea is hy was te kort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk mag miskien kort wees, maar my geduld en passie vir nooddienswerk is onmeetbaar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Solly het nadat hy gemeet en te kort bevind is, by Volkswagen Suid-Afrika gaan werk, maar het bly hunker daarna om ander in nood te help. Toe die geleentheid 12 jaar gelede oor sy pad gekom het, het Solly dit aangegryp en by Relay-ambulansdiens begin werk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy s\u00ea met die uitbreek van die pandemie het Relay se operasionele bestuur wondere verrig om binne \u2018n kort tyd met beperkte inligting, genoeg navorsing te kon inwin om die personeel so goed moontlik teen die virus en omstandighede te beskerm. Sedertdien is di\u00e9 nooddiens-maatskappy se statistieke \u2018n bron van betroubare en insiggewende tendense wat toegepas word in die uitvoering van hulle voorste linie pligte. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNiemand het verlede jaar presies geweet wat doen die virus en hoe reageer dit en wat gaan werk en wat nie. Maar ons moes lewens red, en ons werk het net meer en meer geword. Soms gedaan gewerk op pad huistoe na my familie, het die vrees my beetgekry, want wat as ek my mense aansteek? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk sal nooit my heel eerste geval wat ek met die virus te doen gehad het, vergeet nie. Dit was in Zwide, ek was nog besig om my beskermingsklere aan te trek toe staan die vreesbevange pasi\u00ebnt by my want sy kon nie asem kry nie. Op pad hospitaal het die vrees en onsekerheid ook aan my begin knaag want ek was bang ek het die virus opgedoen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daardie keer was dit vir Solly gespaar, maar hy het wel in Julie 2020 tydens die eerste golf van COVID-19 positief getoets en wonderbaarlik herstel. En ja, daar is van sy familie en vriende wat nie COVID-19 oorleef het nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c\u2019n Positiewe ding wat die pandemie wel teweeg gebring het, is dat mense meer vir mekaar omgee. Dit het mense en selfs gemeenskappe weer bymekaar gebring. Dit is asof mense besef hoe kosbaar is die lewe, hoe kosbaar is elke dag wat jy gesond is. Daarom is my raad, waardeer jou familie en jou vriende.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Waardering aan die mediese werkers wat in die voorste linie teen COVID-19 staan, is ook in hierdie moeilike tye baie belangrik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns waardeer dit s\u00f3 wanneer mense \u2018baie dankie\u2019 s\u00ea. Ons is almal saam in hierdie pandemie en ons moet mekaar ondersteun, ons het mekaar nodig.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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