By Fatou Camara II
A Gambian nurse has moved out of her family house in Sinchu Baliya after she came under sustained discrimination involving family members.
Awa (not her real name) tells The Fatu Network although she has tested negative for coronavirus her family complains ‘constantly’.
“My family complain constantly for the fact that I am exposed and this is very traumatizing,” she says.
“However, I don’t blame them. I quite understand because they feel that I am exposed and might get contracted with the virus and contract them. But I honestly can’t stand the stigma that’s why i need to stay alone.”
According to the nurse, societal discrimination against nurses also exists and that it is traumatizing and might get the country to lose nurses.
“Most people run from us , they don’t want to have anything to do with us,” she said.
