Nurse Ines Lopes enters a COVID-19 patient room at Sao Jose Hospital, Intensive Care Unit (ICU) during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Lisbon, Portugal, February 19, 2021. Picture taken February 19, 2021. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes
LISBON (Reuters) - At midnight nurse Ines Lopes and her colleagues are about to start the night shift taking care of patients in a COVID-19 intensive care unit in the heart of Lisbon. Nursing is a job they love but it barely pays the bills.
Politicians, celebrities and people across Portugal have spent much of the coronavirus pandemic praising frontline health workers, sometimes emerging from their homes to clap and cheer on the medics.
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