Her mother died in a hospital intensive care unit at 3:30 a.m. on Thursday morning after a week-long battle with the virus. Six hours later, Dr. Shilpa Patel, who worked at the SSG State Hospital in Vadodara, was back in the saddle to do her duty. In another city, Dr. Rahul Parmar his 67-year-old mother and rushed back to the hospital where he works.
This is the story of two doctors who, despite the emotional setback, got back to work at a time when India was experiencing a rapid surge in coronavirus cases.
Dr. Shilpa Patel burned her 77-year-old mother, Kanta Ambalal Patel, and put on her PPE suit again after her mother obeyed the last words “duty above all else”.
Dr. Rahul Parmar’s mother Kanta Parmar died on Thursday in Gandhinagar of age-related problems. But Rahul Parmar, who works as a knot officer for Covid management and is part of the corpse disposal team at the largest hospital in central Gujarat, finished the cremation rituals before returning to duty on Friday.
“It was a natural death. I finished the cremation rituals with my family and returned to Vadodara,” said Rahul Parmar, who works in the SSG’s preventive and social medicine department.
Dr. Vinod Rao, an officer with special duties for Covid-19 in Vadodara, said the Covid Warriors had shown great personal commitment and dedication to their duties despite their grief. But for warriors like Dr. Patel and Dr. Parmar, service to humanity is literally their only form of worship at the moment.
Rahul Parmar had to fight the coronavirus in person last year when he was infected on duty in December. “I was admitted here for five days [in SSG] myself. I was given remdesivir and after 14 days of quarantine I went back to work, “said the doctor.
Dr. Shilpa Patel has been on a monthly rotation at Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. “We had moved my mother from Mehsana to Vadodara after the private practitioner there told us we had to arrange remdesivir ourselves. Since she was only accepted into the SSG, I could at least continue to visit her,” said Dr. Shilpa.
Her mother was hospitalized on April 7th and died on April 15th.
Shilpa Patel remembered how her parents had always taught her to work with devotion and insisted that her mother focus on concentrating on her duty just a few hours before she died. “My duty was supposed to start at 9 am on Thursday, but mom left before that,” she said.
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