A doctor’s profession is a sacred one. Besides God, if someone is looked at with same ‘hope’, that’s a doctor. On the occasion of World Health Day 2020, it’s an opportunity to express gratitude and say ‘Thank You’ to doctors.
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the health of the world rests delicately on the shoulders of our healthcare experts.
‘Thank you’ are too often implied these days. They are dumped easily in a box labelled ‘take it as read’, assumed too self-evident to be publicly specified. This year’s World Health Day theme couldn’t be more suitable as it is dedicated to thanking the untiring work of all people those on the front lines of keeping us healthy and safe during the outbreak of coronavirus.
Apart from the doctors, frontline workers, including nurses, pharmacists and other ward staff, are putting themselves in harm’s way as they do their utmost to save lives. This Health Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) is also celebrating the work of nurses and midwives, whose work, in the face of a global outbreak, is more critical than ever.
Let us thank the paramedics, midwives, ambulance drivers, cleaning staff and more for risking their lives for public safety. Despite lacking in equipment and staff and with protective gears, they are serving the humanity selflessly. And it’s not just about them. Every individual has a family to worry about, and it’s the same from the family’s point of view.
Undeterred by the violence unleashed upon doctors by a raging mob in some parts of the country, doctors are doing what’s urgently required of them: recognising and quarantining people affected by the coronavirus.
In times when defence systems and economies get a chunk of the government’s budget, the healthcare systems have emerged as saviours. In several nations, healthcare officials are willing to do so with little or no compensation. For instance, in Lebanon, a team of 14 medical students from the Lebanese University volunteered to treat patients in the country’s coronavirus emergency quarantine facility. They agreed to work 12-hour shifts without pay.
South Korea was hit hard by the pandemic early on. A large part of the administration’s containment measures trusted on mass testing. According to some reports, healthcare workers here directed 12,000 to 15,000 tests daily and created the capacity to conduct approx 20,000 daily.
These tests are believed to have been fundamental to halting the spread of coronavirus in South Korea. Such achievement would not have been possible without the expertise of round-the-clock medical workers dedicating their nights and days to public safety.
The novel coronavirus has brought the world to a standstill like never before in recent memory. But if there is one thing that ought to inspire confidence, it is the knowledge that whatever changes the pandemic may bring to the globe, the hard work of our doctors, nurses and others who support them in this battle continues.
Not all heroes wear capes; some wear masks, gloves and lab coats.
PM Narendra Modi thanks, doctors and healthcare workers.
Today on #WorldHealthDay, let us not only pray for each other’s good health and well-being but also reaffirm our gratitude towards all those doctors, nurses, medical staff and healthcare workers who are bravely leading the battle against the COVID-19 menace.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 7, 2020
On World Health Day 2020, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged citizens to extend their gratitude to doctors, nurses, medical staff and healthcare workers who are at the real warriors fighting against the COVID-19 outbreak.