Dr Dilip Prabhakar More, 65, Paediatrician at Ratnagiri Civil Hospital for 45 years and preferred to treat the poor. He treated 42 children during the COVID tenure. He was the first doctor to recommend that mother's milk is the best antidote for COVID-19. He treated a 5-month-old baby and when the child left the hospital with the mother other doctors and nurses clapped for him. He now has a ward on his name in the same hospital and is considered a hero in Ratnagiri. Dr Prabhakar contracted COVID, along with his whole family in July. He passed away in August. Pramila is his wife and Jyoti his daughter joined the Salute Our Saviours Telethon to talk about Dr Prabhakar's valiant fight against COVID-19.
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.