Michael Agustin's Oral History

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Title

Michael Agustin's Oral History

Synopsis

• Interviewee is thirty-three years old and from Bacolod City, Negros Occidental
• Assistant chief nurse for education and Covid team head nurse at a hospital
• Shares experience as a Covid team head nurse designing Covid-19 protocol for the hospital and hiring, training and retaining staff in the initial days of the pandemic
• Details personal reactions to colleagues’ experiences as COVID-19 survivors and the impacts of their experiences on hospital staff
• Describes Covid-19 protocol violations they have witnessed
• Describes support schemes such as the PAGIBIG and SSS and assistance provided by the local government’s Department of Social Welfare and Development and the Department of Health
• Describes barter as a form of mutual aid amongst the Bacolod community
• Shares about discriminations faced by medical staff and measures taken to address these discriminations

Date Created

January 30, 2021

Language of interview

Filipino

Index

Biography
- Family 5-7, 13
- Friends 6

Communication
- News 16
- Social Media 12

Daily Routine
- Alcohol 2
- Clothes 15
- Food 6-7, 15
- Masks 6
- Panic buying 7

Job
- Frontliner 10, 14-15
- Hospital 1-5, 9-10, 12, 15
- Nurse 1, 3-4, 8-9, 13, 15-16
- PPE 6-8

Memory and trauma
- AH1N1 5

Philippine Government Covid-response
- Contact tracing 9
- Fines 11-12
- Lockdown 2
- Movement Restrictions 6, 9
- Quarantine 3
- Social Amelioration Program 14
- Social Distancing 16
- Social Gathering 9, 11-12

Response measures for Covid-19
- Masking up 1-2, 7, 9, 11
- Swab test 10, 12
- Vaccine 11, 16
- Washing hands 2

Support 13 -14

Item sets

Michael Agustin's Oral History (translation)