Hindustan Times ST (Jaipur)

Covid warriors: Patient smile is their reward

- K Sandeep Kumar and Hemendra Chaturvedi

Humble, soft spoken and discipline­d, Kuldeep Sharma is attached to the North Central Railways (NCR) health unit located at Subedargan­j in Sangam city.

The 31-year-old hospital assistant is a multi-tasker— a skill he was forced to pick up and hone during the pandemic.at the peak of the second wave Sharma attended to Covid-19 cases at the quarantine centre set up by NCR at Indian Railways Track Machines Training Centre, Prayagraj.

Here he assisted doctors, took the temperatur­e of patients and measured their oxygen levels. Currently, at the health unit located at Subedargan­j he is a vital part of NCR’S Covid-19 vaccinatio­n exercise.

“Besides cleaning hospital equipment and fittings, as well as overall cleanlines­s, I also make entries of new OPD patients in the register and help in medical and general store, besides dressing of patients, measuring blood pressure and ECG of patients and assisting doctors during an emergency by undertakin­g stitching, administer­ing injections under sup sion,” explained Sharma, hails from Sultanpur but is rently residing in railway q ters in Subedargan­j along his wife, Neelam, and two aged 13 and 7.

“I contracted Covid-19 v in November 2020 and ha remain in home isolatio recovered and immedia rejoined duties,” Sharma who barring the period o infection and a few day March-end, has not taken l from work since the outbre April 2020.

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Mohit Kumar, 26, a ward-b the Covid hospital in SN Me College here still receives from patients who were c and discharged. Mohit has popular among patients, a served meals to patients also ensured that they ate .

“”Mohit not only distrib food but also made sure every patient had it. He good at convincing the pat to have healthy food assisted those not able to themselves,” said Dr Pras Gupta of SN Medical Colle

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