Talking to Ravish Kumar, Anju Sharma an ASHA worker from Ludhiana talks about the fear, stigma, challenges faced by the community of health workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic. From spreading awareness about social distancing and safety protocols to quarantining people ASHA workers were dealing with it all, risking their lives and that of their families without adequate infrastructure, support and threats and abuses from the community out of fear of the pandemic.
A doctor in Assam is winning hearts with his energetic performance to the song Ghungroo from the movie War. A video that is being widely circulated online shows Dr Arup Senapati dancing to the song while clad in a full PPE kit, apparently in a bid to cheer up COVID-19 patients at his Silchar hospital.
Days after Delhi's Corona Warrior doctors did stress-busting, immunity-boosting yoga with COVID-19 patients, visuals of them dancing with patients have brought cheer to the country even as its total case count came close to 12 lakh.
A 42-year-old contractual doctor, who was working with Delhi government's National Health Mission, died yesterday of coronavirus.
Indore-based doctor, Ajay Joshi, who treated hundreds of coronavirus patients since the outbreak of the pandemic, had tested positive for the deadly virus on May 23 and was admitted to city's Choithram Hospital the next day. After batting the infection for over two weeks, Dr Joshi died at the hospital Tuesday morning.
A 58-year-old sanitation supervisor at Delhi's AIIMS died on Sunday after contracting the fatal coronavirus infection. He had tested positive for the deadly virus four days ago.