Nurse’s Day: Explosions on April 22 and pandemic mark Emilia’s trajectory

With 31 years of experience in the health area, Emilia López Moya, celebrates Nurse’s Day in Mexico, her work has been arduous and throughout her working days, what has marked her the most are the explosions of April 22 1992, the COVID-19 pandemic and he still says that it is not time to withdraw.

López Moya currently works at the Dr. Francisco Ruiz Sánchez Green Cross, in the Lomas del Paradero neighborhood. In the explosions of April 22, he had to go out to attend injured in the old neighborhood of Analco.

“Many things have marked me, I was also a paramedic when I had to deal with the explosions I had to fight and get ahead with what we had, very little, to treat all the injured, take care of them and somehow listen to them for all the suffering, lost Now with the pandemic it is different, the changes with technology with all the advances in medicine, all those colleagues who have just graduated, it has to be with the empirical as they taught us, now you have an oximeter, before you do not you counted, now there is a monitor, in the past we did not have such sophisticated monitors, the equipment makes a difference, now they do not know how to get out without technology “, Emilia commented.

“Many things have marked me, I was also a paramedic when I had to deal with the explosions I had to fight and get ahead with what we had”

The health worker stressed that they still continue with the challenge of increasing COVID-19 cases, with different variants, including the omicron, and assured that it only remains to continue on the warpath and be trained, hoping that society will take on The restriction measures seriously, since he has also suffered casualties from colleagues due to COVID.

“The pandemic that we are already going for three years and continues to leave us challenges to continue in training because this remains the same, the pandemic continues to grow and the training and education for all health personnel in general continues to grow, we have to be prepared, we are starting the year and we have to continue coming out with what we can because there are many casualties in material, equipment, colleagues, many also who have already left because of this pandemic, “he said.

Emilia’s vocation as a nurse was passed on to her son, Ángel López Moya, 17, who is currently studying for a degree.

“The career is very noble, compensated after someone gives you thanks after having attended it. It fills you spiritually”

“I have a son and as a good example his training also goes to nursing, and he wants to take the medicine road, he is focused on the health area, I am very satisfied to know that, even though I left almost everything, I did sacrifice family , but my son has that example and is on the right track. He saw them talk and comment every day, he felt the need to help people, “he said.

Emilia and her 17-year-old son Ángel López Moya. SPECIAL /

At the Delgadillo Araujo Green Cross, the mayor of Guadalajara, Pablo Lemus Navarro, honored nurses who have completed more than 30 years of service, among them Lorena Palacios, who is already in the paperwork to retire.

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