As India grapples with the rise in Covid cases, doctors and medical staff remain the first line of defense against the virus, sometimes at personal expense, sometimes at personal expense.
29-year-old Shilpi, a nurse at the Maharana Bhupal Govt Hospital in Udaipur, is forced to resume work even if her mother is admitted to the intensive care unit.
Shilpi only sees her mother once a day as she has to care for 700 Covid patients in the facility.
Sister Shilpi told India Today TV, “I have to take care of my mother, but I also have to take care of my patients. We have to balance the two of us. If we don’t take care of the patients, who will? My mother is.” approved in the intensive care unit. After my 24-hour shift, sometimes 27 hours, I look at her from outside the intensive care unit and come back. “
“When she got sick I couldn’t say goodbye and go to Delhi to take care of her because we have very little staff. I have her here in an ambulance. Now I can see her at least once. I’m worried.” But I can’t show my stress to my patients. I have to make sure they are well taken care of. That is why I joined this noble profession in the first place. We have to stay strong just because of the nature of our job. We look to our families later and to the patients first. “, added her.
46-year-old Pinky Rao works as a helper at the MB Hospital in Udaipur. She leaves her diabetic mother and a 2-year-old at home to take care of the hygiene of the patients in the intensive care unit.
Pinki Rao told India Today: “Hygiene plays a very important role in treating Covid-19. We clean bathrooms and give our patients sponge washes so they can get sores in bed. We help Covid patients who have problems with that Have bowel movements. We clean. ” their feces. That is the least we can do for them. We don’t know how to treat patients, but we can help in one way and we have to. “
“I’ve stayed away from my 2-year-old daughter for over a month because I’m afraid she might get the virus from me, but we come to work every day because these are the darkest times we go through If we can’t help today, our birth as humans is a waste, “she added.
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