Highlights
- Health care workers, changing roster
- Fear of bringing the infection to the family
- Anxiety being face by healthcare workers
In most cases, Amer is supposed to work for 8 hours, but that is not the case now. She is working more than she needed it, and that increased the level of anxiety. As someone who had lived in a refugee camp before coming to Australia, Amer said,' helping others is the best blessings one can ask for'.
To keep her family safe, she would use the garage entrance to avoid her children because she may not know who she came to contact with at the workplace.
"I will call my husband before coming home and ask him to place a towel at the garage and paper bag. In some cases, I will ask him to go to the backyard with children so that I can snick to the bathroom. I do this to protect my family because I don't know who I met at work.
Amer also talks about how it is becoming difficult for a mother like her because of the changing rosters. As an agency worker, she can easily be a backfill for those who are not coming to work.
"I work in a low care area, and these are people with high needs some times, and because of this disease(COVID-19), anyone who calls in with the report not being well be kept away from work. That is forcing some of us to work for more hours. There are times I had stayed away from my home for 27, 24 and 16 hours when I was met to work for 8 hours. "
