'The best job in the world': a Madrid ambulance doctor's dedication after a year of COVID

Madrid Emergency Service (SUMMA) UVI-4 unit's workers transfer a patient on a stretcher during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Madrid, Spain, February 9, 2021. REUTERS/Juan Medina

MADRID (Reuters) - Despite many sleepless nights on Spain's COVID-19 frontline, Dr Navid Behzadi Koochani of Madrid's regional ambulance service goes to work smiling almost every day.

Calls to the Madrid service have jumped by a third in the year since the coronavirus struck the world, averaging 4,000 a day, but Behzadi, 48, is proud of his team's ability to swoop in and save lives, and is optimistic the vaccine rollout heralds the end of the pandemic.