2020_04_02_FAR_palomeque

The students of the Master's Degree University in management of Pharma-Biotech Companies that School of Pharmacy and Nutrition teaches in Madrid have also been professionally affected by the coronavirus pandemic. This is the case of María José Palomeque, who, after five intense months of classes, began her internship at Astrazeneca' s medical department on March 2. She then joined the medical manager and MSL team and, although the news was already talking about COVID 19 and the first cases were beginning to appear in Spain, she did not imagine that, a month later, she would be moonlighting: teleworking with Astrazeneca and collaborating with the Andalusian Health Service in her native Jaén.

María José studied medicine at the University of Granada, so when the health crisis began, she did not hesitate and, after discussing it with her business, she called the Jaén Health District to put herself at their disposal. Initially he was in an ambulance transporting possible positive patients to the hospital. Now he is in a town as a family doctor, but he confesses that he does not know where he will be next week: "They send us wherever we need to go; depending on how status evolves, they will reorganize us".

Combining the two activities is not easy, but he is grateful to Astrazeneca for having encouraged him to collaborate from the outset. So little by little, what he can't make progress these weeks, he will learn later. He also confesses that they are going through very tough situations: "As sad as it is, in moments of suffering you realize how good life is. We are lucky to live in a time and a country that has a lot of means and we are very prepared".