RAJKOT: They clean the wards where
Covid-19 infected patients are admitted — the job considered as most dangerous by many. However, they are undaunted when it comes to giving a sponge massage to the coronavirus patients and cleaning bathrooms and toilets of the Covid ward.
Meet 150-odd sanitation workers of
GG Covid Hospital in Jamnagar — a battalion of corona warriors. “As I had studied only upto HSC, I was finding it hard to get a job. However, when this job came to me, more than the monetary gain, I thought of serving humanity,” says Komal Kumbharana, one of the sanitation workers of
the GG Hospital.
“I take pride in the fact that I've got a chance to serve humanity when I get to clean the lavatory and bathroom of the Covid-19 patients,” says Shailesh Rathod, another sanitation worker at the hospital.
“Earlier, I had a fear of contracting infection from them (Covid-19 patients). But after wearing a PPE kit, all my apprehensions for infection vanished,” says
Nazia Fakir, who has been serving at this hospital for the past eight years.
“Many a time, we have to clean the stool and urine of the patients who are lying unconscious and bed ridden. We don’t feel ashamed or embarrassed. We take this task as a service to humanity,” says
Bhanu Hirani, who has been with this hospital for the past 12 years.