COVID-19 heroines

Dabota Yvonne Buowari is a member of the Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria and Vice-Chair of the MWIA Work Life Balance special interest group.

This poem is dedicated to all women doctors working on the frontline during the COVID-19 pandemic.

They say we are the weaker vessels They say we are not physically strong Just because we have oestrogen and progesterone We encounter discrimination Wherever we go Discriminated in medical school Discriminated at the workplace Discriminated during clerkship rotation Discriminated during residency selection Then comes the SARS-CoV2 pandemic We are at the frontline Women doctors in the battlefield of coronavirus disease 2019 Fighting to save the lives of our patients Irrespective of their gender Not minding if they are males or females Some women doctors have fallen Some are gone Some have lost their lives In the COVID-19 war Some of us are still standing Even with the global shortage of personal protective equipment We are not discouraged The battle continues Combatant soldiers at the warfront Of the SARS-CoV2 battle Women doctors, we shall conquer Medical women, we shall win the war Because we have what it takes