Dozens of students of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine & Dentistry have become permanent reinforcements for the staff of many departments at University Hospital Olomouc in recent weeks, including a COVID-19 testing checkpoint, set up in the parking lot of the Theoretical Institutes building. You can take a close look at the “frontline” through the camera lens of Vojtěch Duda.
The management of both faculties highly appreciates their students’ work. “I value your volunteer work not only as a noble gesture on the part of young, enthusiastic people, but above all as the humane response of future doctors to an emergency situation in which personal comfort goes by the wayside and helping those in need comes to the forefront. At this moment, I already know that you will not fail as doctors and that you understand that being a doctor is not just a profession, but a mission. I am delighted that we have the privilege to educate such future doctors here,” said Dean of the UP Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Josef Zadražil, in his address to students.
Martin Procházka, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, also addressed thanks to “his” students: “We appreciate your attitude and commitment. It is proof of how sensitive you are to the moral dimension of your future professions. We are proud of you. Thank you for representing our faculty, for helping the patients and the needy. Let me wish you a lot of strength and good health.”
We are continuously providing coverage of how Palacký University students are volunteering during the pandemic, not only in University Hospital Olomouc. Their impressions and experience can be found – in addition to other information – here.
