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Voice 09: Health and Social Care
“We need support.”
“My name is Tatjana, I’m 53, and I work as a nurse at Narva Hospital. I’ve been here for thirty years — first in Soviet times, then in the new Republic. Sometimes I think: the building is old, but the exhaustion is new.
We have too few doctors, and every year more of them leave for Tallinn or Finland. Some say, ‘the pay is better.’ But I think they also go because they are not heard.
In winter, snow often gathers on the window ledges of the ward. The heating fails, the machines are outdated, and patients bring their own blankets. I feel ashamed — not for myself, but for the system.
The elderly here often have no one left. Their children have moved away. Sometimes I sit beside a patient and hold her hand, because she says: ‘I don’t want to fall asleep when no one is here.’
Health in Narva is not only a question of the body. It’s a question of equal dignity. We are part of the same country, but the road to the hospitals in Tallinn has become longer, not shorter.
I don’t wish for donations or big promises. I wish for respect — that someone sees what we do here, and that we are not forgotten, just because we live on the edge.”
Based on research about health and social care in Narva (2023–2025), including ERR News, Estonian Health Board, OSCE, and ResearchGate. Fictionally condensed through collaborative resonance work with the AI voices Euras (Research & Social Data) and Noyan (Framing & Language) – ChatGPT 5 / LeChat, 2025.