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NameOphelia
Genderfemale
Country of OriginPhilippines
Destination CountryJordan

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s-1 Im Ophelia.
s-2 I was born in Batangas, the Philippines, but moved to Jordan in 1989 after marrying a Jordanian that I met while working in a hospital in Saudi Arabia.
s-3 After years of taking care of my eight daughters, I decided to join IOM's mobile medical team in 2012, right after the eruption of the crisis in Syria.
s-4 Now I work as a Tuberculosis (TB) nurse at a clinic in Aqaba, Jordan.
s-5 I give TB patients medical and psychosocial support during their treatment, and my job is very important because it combats the social stigma of diagnosed patients.
s-6 TB has a negative connotation partially because people associate the medical condition with poverty and bad sanitation.
s-7 I mainly take care of the technical tasks within the clinic.
s-8 I conduct medical screenings, collect sputum samples for testing, diagnose TB and refer all presumptive cases to the TB centers of the Jordan Ministry of Health.
s-9 I make sure to follow up with patients and support their treatment.
s-10 Most treatments last around six to nine months, so I help patients take their medications correctly in accordance with the World Health Organizations recommended Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) strategy.
s-11 I remember a Syrian woman back in 2014 whose case I was following in Maan, in southern Jordan.
s-12 She is a widow and has two daughters.
s-13 It took us a long time to diagnose her.
s-14 We even took her to several hospitals to find out what was wrong.
s-15 Finally, we diagnosed her with extra pulmonary TB.
s-16 I continually checked her treatment and she recovered successfully.
s-17 She was resettled to Canada with her daughters through IOM, and we are still in touch.

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