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My name is Dr. Bjorn Ghillemjim and I have been working

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for Joint Commission now for three years as an international

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Surveyor. On a day-to-day basis, I work as the chief

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medical officer of a 400 bed acute care hospital

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in Belgium, position I have been holding now for

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the last 6 years. What personally struck me the most

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during this crisis was the spontaneous manner in

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which every single member of the hospital staff

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just rallied together around the common goal on

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the common goal of keeping this virus at Bay and keeping

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our community safe. I saw Physicians helping members

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of the cleaning staff getting dressed before they

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entered the room of a COVID patient functioning

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and in fact as their buddy and also sharing in their

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tasks and sharing in their fears of the unknown.

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I saw people from admin doing chocolate rounds on

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Easter Sunday. So the nurses who were doing very

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long hours at the time that did not miss out on our

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traditional Eastern chocolate egg. Sweet. 

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So in fact the hospital just functioned as a kind of a hive,

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where everybody pitched in and I kind of hive mind emerged

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because nobody had faced this before. Nobody had

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the exact right answers. So the only way forward

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was to come up with our own answers together, and

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if there is one thing I hope comes out of this crisis,

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that it is a renewed sense of solidarity in the hospital

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because in the end we are all in this together, and

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we all just serve the same purpose, which is keeping

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our patients and ourselves as healthy as possible.

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Thank you.