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Philadelphia-area health-care students are helping patients in isolation connect with loved ones

The project hits home for Temple University medical student Stephanie Javier-Fagbemi, whose uncle died from complications from COVID-19 in isolation, denying the family of the ability to "say goodbye."

Stephanie Javier-Fagbemi, a third-year medical student at Temple and member of the Philadelphia Organization of Health Professions Students (POHPS), is involved with a project called Connect for Covid to bring smart devices to patients to enable them to stay in contact with family and friends while hospitalized in isolation. The situation hits home for her as her uncle died from COVID-19 in isolation.
Stephanie Javier-Fagbemi, a third-year medical student at Temple and member of the Philadelphia Organization of Health Professions Students (POHPS), is involved with a project called Connect for Covid to bring smart devices to patients to enable them to stay in contact with family and friends while hospitalized in isolation. The situation hits home for her as her uncle died from COVID-19 in isolation.Read moreHEATHER KHALIFA / Staff Photographer
    by Phil Anastasia
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