‘Won’t let down my weapons’

TNN | May 1, 2020, 04:00 IST

Surat: “Being a doctor, I can’t drop my weapons against coronavirus when many colleagues are fighting a valiant battle,” says Covid survivor Dr Nehal Sakariya, 29, a resident of Ambada village in Navsari taluka. She was who was discharged from Yashfin hospital in Navsari after testing negative twice on Thursday.
Sakariya is the first patient in Navsari to have recovered from the deadly infection. About six other patients are still undergoing treatment at the hospitals in Navsari.
She is employed as the medical officer in Surat’s Kiran multi-speciality hospital. She voluntarily decided to undergo the coronavirus test after about 12 healthcare staff of the hospital tested positive. Sakariya tested positive on April 22 and was shifted to the isolation ward of Yashfin hospital.
Sakariya’s husband is working as the medical officer at the Community Health Centre (CHC) in Ambada village.
“I came to Navsari on April 15 and got the news about a nurse testing positive at Kiran hospital on April 18. I talked to my husband and voluntarily went for the testing at the CHC centre in Ambada. When the report came positive, I was broken,” says Sakariya, who recovered after eight days in hospital.