Doctors, nurses, officers or warriors, they could be in any form but they are surely risking their lives to the serve the humanity.
To recognize their efforts and send a message of appreciation, we are running a series on responsible humans. The least we can do is to cheer them is to keep ourselves positive, motivated and locked at homes.
Some are bound with their sense of duty, some are committed to serve the humanity and some are silently finding their ways to help the unknown distressed people, and said, “Young #IAS Officers leading #fightagainstcorona.” because they can feel the pain and agony of hapless sufferers during this unprecedented crisis of Corona Pandemic.
When social distancing is the most important thing, getting infected from deadly corona (NoveL Covid-19) virus, is easy from infected people, infected surfaces and any kind of casual touch, when we are being advised, influenced and forced to go into isolation, there are many visible and invisible warriors who are helping the humanity to fight this pandemic, assuring the humanity that it will survive out of this difficult time too.
Let us meet few such passionate warriors and know about their efforts, their attitude and their commitment.
Mridula S. Sree The rookie nurse is one of those many nurses who are fearlessly fighting the pandemic, standing right in the middle of life and death for those who are affected by this deadly virus or those who are the suspected Covid 19 patients.
Her first such frontline duty came barely half a year into her career at Government TD Medical College Hospital in Alleppey. Initially like most of us she was apprehensive already about the prospect of being in a room with COVID-19. Being in the isolation ward is a unique experience, as it is a lonely space and discomfiting because there is just a patient there and you. As a student at the Government College of Nursing and during her internship, Mridula has been aware about stories about the ward and the stresses, nurses go through.
As she explains we can visualize what an isolation ward would be like, “It’s just you and the patient in a spare, bright room with two doors, there is a designated entrance and exit to be used exclusively by the visiting health or care support. An attendant sits outside just in case, but once you enter, that door is almost never opened till you are relieved of duty. It takes some time before you are used to,” Mridula says.
Her first stint in the isolation unit came in February after a medical student returnee from Wuhan—India’s second confirmed coronavirus case—was housed there. He was discharged on February 13 after consecutive negative tests.