Jaipur Golden,Moolchand, Ganga Ram, Batra, Pentamed are not just hospital names from the news last week. I spent a part of my childhood sitting outside some of these and waiting for my parents to finish seeing patients and doing their rounds. From the car, I would see

People come in with cautious hope. Most times I would hear my dad tell a relative ‘ He’s under observation but he should be fine , we have the best facilities and are doing everything we can’. Every time they lost a patient (dad works in critical care) it would play on dad’s mind

But he would know that he did the best he could. I fear for doctors who are battling sleep deprivation,exhaustion and everything else right now to keep going and feeling inadequate when they can’t save patients.what toll must this be taking on them. In the last week, dad and many

Of his peers have received threatening calls, been abused and blamed for things that are completely out of their control. Oxygen availability is not in their hands. The pandemic has broken our health infrastructure, let’s try to protect the ones who go to war for us. Please.