Raghdaa Al-Khatib
My name is Raghdaa Al-Khatib, and I have been working as a nurse with MSF for seven years. When we help patients, I feel a sense of hope and life. Days go by, and for me, a good day is when I am close to those in need of medical care. I am very happy to be part of the nursing team at MSF in northwest Syria.
There is a day when I felt the opposite of this feeling; I panicked and felt scared, it was on February 6th, the day of the earthquake in Syria and Turkey, one of the hardest days I have experienced during my nursing career because there was a lot of casualties.
In my daily work as a nurse the vital signs monitor is one of the medical devices, I use the most because one of my tasks in the mobile clinic is to measure the patient's vital signs.
As the most senior nurse, I want to be known among my colleagues as their mother who always stood by their side.