sink, dirt, rot everywhere. After the renovation was carried out at the expense of CENTOS, the common room will be launched in the coming days, and I will be a permanent care worker. This Saturday is the opening ceremony of the common room.
At the same time, I started looking for a doctor and a hygienist. I have written whole stacks of reports on this matter to the Department’s management, kept pestering the Point manager, visited TOZ; in a word, I have made a lot of noise; all to no avail. Meanwhile, diseases among children progressed at an alarming rate: typhus, tuberculosis, and dysentery; those children received no treatment, and infected one another. The intensity [33] of scabies was so great that more than 30 percent of children were covered with ulcers. In some cases, through my personal acquaintances, I was able to get a free referral to TOZ, but that solution could not be used en masse. On one of the most tragic days I experienced at Lubeckiego Street 12, I came to learn that one of the children, an orphan, Moszek Bok, whom I had been feeding a special diet and I had already saved from death once, was dying. I immediately ran to TOZ but it turned out that there was no doctor there. I was given the address of an infirmary at Gęsia Street 6, and I went there, but I found out that while the infirmary provides care on the site, there are no doctors there at all. I went back to TOZ, where I caused a scene. As a result, several hours
later a nurse showed up and said she would have administered an injection had she been given the right preparation. But it was too late for an injection, the child was dying.
About two weeks ago, when I came to TOZ, I found out that a doctor and a nurse were assigned to Lubeckiego Street 12, and after several days they came to the Point.
So much for the history of my work. How will it develop? Now, a new wave of typhus has struck a number of my colleagues, preventing them from working. I am still a mobile care-giver on Zamenhofa and Pawia streets (74 children), and a permanent one at Lubeckiego Street 12 (86 children). How will it all go on? After all, we have been undergoing reorganisation for several months now. There is talk of cancelling mobile care, passing on meal providing to other factors. What for, why? I, having provided both constant and mobile care, do not know which type of my work has more value, mobile care on Zamenhofa Street or permanent at Lubeckiego Street 12. I still would like to free myself from the burden of overworking, but I would
