Scandal in a village near Bourgas: a healthcare assistant is driven out of her home because she works in Covid-19 ward

The fear of the coronavirus, which is gradually overwhelming us, has begun to manifest itself in absurd acts that divide people and provoke anger. While many hospitals in the country are grateful for any help, a healthcare assistant who works in the COVID ward at a hospital in the coastal city of Bourgas, has been driven out from her village and her grandchildren were deprived of schooling.

Yordanka Zhelyazkova is forced to sleep under a bridge because her neighbours from the village of Ravnets do not allow her to return to her home in order not to infect them. The mayor of Bourgas reacted angrily and said he would personally help the woman.

The hospital in Bourgas has three different COVID-19 wards. Yordanka Zhelyazkova works in one of them. According to her, after working in a Covid environment, she felt banished by the people in the village of Ravnets, where she lives. She even had to sleep on the street. For several days she has been sheltered in the surgical building of the medical institution.

Yordanka Zhelyazkova is a healthcare assistant in the surgical ward of the Bourgas hospital. Due to the increase in the number of patients with COVID-19, she was seconded to help her colleagues in the treatment of the coronavirus. However, her closeness to the infection turned out to be a problem for her neighbours, who did not want her to go home.

"I can't go home. Neither to change my clothes nor to do anything. I have no right. I slept at the seaside, under a bridge, in the rain, in the heaviest rain, wet to the bone," Yordanka said.

The healthcare assistant’s daughter claims that her child and niece were sent back from school because of their grandmother's work.

“I was told that while my mother was in the COVID ward, we had to either isolate her or my daughter and niece not attend school for 10 days. Which, like any parent, I was quite angry about," Penka explained.

In the village of Ravnets, they say they are worried, but deny persecuting Yordanka.

"No one has said they do not want her to return to the village, but those people who work in such a ward should comply with some kind of quarantine."

"Yes, there are mothers of pupils who are worried, but I don't know, maybe it needs to be explained that it's not scary and they can let their children go to school."

"The woman was not persecuted by anyone, no one forbade her to return home. There is a child who had a respiratory illness, which was returned according to a protocol by the medical person," said the mayor of the village Kostadin Georgiev.

After the story caused outrage on social networks, the mayor of Bourgas reacted. The municipality has provided Yordanka with temporary housing in the city.

"An apartment that is from a reserve fund. Adapted for these purposes. The apartment is fully furnished," said Tina Pisarova, who is the director of Municipal Properties in Bourgas.

Today, the municipality of Bourgas will hand over the keys to the healthcare assistant from the COVID ward and she can move to the apartment.

Yordanka does not think of returning to the village soon, as she is worried that she might harm her relatives.

The woman will live in the apartment all alone, and the municipality says she can stay in it as long as she needs to.

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