An Auckland pharmacist says she is working in fear and has opened up about getting verbally abused every day she works on the frontline in the battle against Covid-19.
“I have cried so many times … the volume scripts is uncontrollable and we are drowning in work. The phone won’t stop ringing and people abuse us on the daily,” Esther Butt told the Herald.
“One lady who was getting medication for her husband yelled at me: ‘I’m putting my life at risk coming here, hurry up’ and that really hurt because my life’s at risk every day and I am trying my best to help everybody.”
She wanted to share her story to remind people “to be kind to your local pharmacist as we want to help and are giving up a lot to be here
It’s been three days since the 39-year-old said goodbye to her three children who she won’t see for at least four weeks while she and her staff put themselves at risk to help New Zealanders in desperate need of medication.