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World Service,13 Nov 2021,50 mins

On the Covid ward

The Documentary Podcast

Available for over a year

Frontline medical teams in the UK have fine-tuned the physical treatment of severely ill Covid patients. But one thing that has gone largely unnoticed is their efforts to help those patients – often on ventilators for weeks – keep up the will to live, and enable their families to stay connected with these patients.

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