Timeout for words: Tens of politicians return to the doctor's profession to help in the fight against Coronavirus

These are a small part of a growing group of people in politics, arts, and sports that are again becoming doctors to help health systems in these harsh conditions.

Leo Vardkar, the Irish prime minister, will work one day a week as a doctor until his country faces a wave of infected people. Many of his family members and friends are working in the medical service. He wanted to help, however little,” said his spokesman, writes The Guardian, translates Periscopi.

Varadkar, 41, had worked as a doctor in Dublin before he closed this career to become a full-time politician and later to become a prime minister.

Coronavirus has caused thousands of health workers to become sick and unable to work. Health services across the continent have called on all former doctors, practitioners, anyone with useful skills to help cover the gap.

For Thomas Lilt, 43, director and director of the show, he was shooting a television medical drama called “Hipcrati” in a hospital where the pandemic had arrived. He stopped filming, and a few days later he began working as a doctor a profession he had stopped in 2014 .

I volunteered to help in any form so that the skilled doctors, those who really know what they are doing, have little time to rest, even for a few hours. ” he said.

Other sports figures have also turned to the medical profession. Stephanie dos Santos, 27-year-old basketball player is one of them.

Even politicians across Europe and the political spectrum have responded to this pandemic.

Catalin Csep, 31-year-old MP from the opposition Momentum party, has returned from Brussels to Budapest and has started the first change as a volunteer health worker during Thursday.

Dozens of other politicians have done the same. /Periscope