M Health Fairview's lead Muslim chaplain on navigating spiritual care in the pandemic
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COVID-19 has presented new challenges for hospital chaplains across the state. At M Health Fairview, Imam Tamer Abdelaziz volunteered to start seeing coronavirus patients earlier this spring.
He spoke with MPR News host Cathy Wurzer about his experience.
Much of his work is done virtually via phone or iPad, he explained, though he does meet with some patients in person, as well.
He recalled one man he recently visited who was nearing the end of his life.
“To have that honor is something so meaningful to me,” Abdelaziz said, “to be one of the only people that this patient is having some kind of contact with in their last moments.”
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