Best Latest (Top 3 Corona Warriors Real Life Stories)

Best Latest (Top 3 Corona Warriors Real Life Stories)

Chandrakanta Sharma, 57, is an auxiliary nurse, midwife, and grassroots doctor posted within the Ramganj area of Jaipur. 

For the past 10 days, she has been going door-to-door and enquiring if residents have fever or cough—symptoms of coronavirus—or if anybody has traveled abroad lately.

Any answers in the affirmative and she requests them to visit the nearest dispensary, where health check-ups are conducted. At times, people don’t tell the truth and she has to ascertain information from neighbors. Sharma also educates people on how to protect themselves from the virus and reduce the chances of transmission. 

Daily, she visits about a hundred homes. “I want to ensure that every single household is covered in my area,” says Sharma.

The four positive cases of Covid-19 left as on 18 Friday 2020 in Ladakh region, while 14 of the positive cases have tested negative because of efforts of local corona warriors, doctors, and administration.

The real unsung hero against coronavirus in Ladakh is Lama Thupstan Chogyal who is heading the Ladakh Heart Foundation, an NGO, as he has been working hard on the ground with his volunteers to detect suspect cases.

Talking to this newspaper, Chogyal said that his volunteers, including doctors, used to move and treat around 800 to 1,000 people every month, especially during winters in the entire Ladakh region. “We have suspended that work and currently, we are only fighting against coronavirus, along with government doctors and administration,” he said. The Union Territory of Ladakh administration is on the verge of declaring the region coronavirus free, as the four positive patients are responding to treatment. Recent health ministry documents said that Ladakh’s fight against Covid-19 serves as a model for other regions. It attributes the success to the hard work of doctors and paramedics and leadership of the region.

Home ministry documents have praised the “swiftness of the administration” to act as it immediately sealed villages and quarantined all suspected cases after detecting the first positive cases. As a precautionary measure, doctors and authorities have kept all patients who have recovered in quarantine at an isolated ward and are daily monitoring them. A senior doctor of Sonam Nurbo Memorial hospital of Leh said, “Out of 15 Covid-19 positive cases—12 from Leh and three from Kargil—13 have been discharged from hospital and they are now under quarantine.”

The Ladakh administration is presently doing aggressive sampling, including going door-to-door, collecting samples of all those having even fewer symptoms of the disease. The biggest two hurdles for the Ladakh administration are the recent permission to trucks and oil tankers to bring essential supplies inside the region and the 1,200 pilgrims, mostly from Kargil, who are either stranded in Iran or different parts of the country. Although the administration has asked police to keep drivers and their helpers away from the local population in Kargil and Ladakh, chances of interaction and mingling are high.

Sharmila, a resident of Bilaspur, is a nurse in Chandigarh. She postponed her marriage that was scheduled for May 1, 2020, to help the country fight the coronavirus, as in her words, "She can marry after the lockdown ends, but being on duty at the moment is more important."

Since April 7, Sharmila in her PPE kit has screened more than thousands of people at the entry point of Chandigarh's vegetable and grain market.

My marriage was alleged to happen in Bilaspur on May Day 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 curfew in Chandigarh and the current situation in the country, I decided to stay on duty. I decided marriage can happen after the lockdown ends; however, to be present on the duty at this moment is important," she said in her conversation with Zee News.

Sharmila was engaged on February 9, and the date of marriage was also fixed on the same day. 

Sharmila said that everyone in her family and in-laws agreed with her decision. Sharmila added, "No one knew that this lockdown would go so far and as soon as the wedding date was finalized in February, my family had started preparations for the wedding. We had also gone shopping but could not buy everything as the nation-wide lockdown was imposed."

She also appealed to people through Zee News that every corona warrior is doing his/her duty by sacrificing some or the other thing, so people should also cooperate with the front-line workers. 

"Those who throw stones at front-line workers should understand that they are performing their jobs and the people should also stay at home and perform their duties," added corona warrior Sharmila.

Sharmila may have to wait a little longer for her wedding but she remains positive. She believes that even as the medical gear replaced her wedding dress and jewelry, the present situation doesn't allow her to vacate the duty.