Rajkot: Stating that 2020 was a year of ‘extraordinary challenges in health sector’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid tributes to all the frontline workers who relentlessly worked by risking their own lives to work in the last nine months of Covid pandemic.
“Today, I bow in respect to lakhs of doctors, health warriors, sanitation workers, pharmacy employees and other frontline warriors who protected humanity by constantly risking their lives. This is the year to remember all those who laid down their lives in the fight against the pandemic,” Modi said in his address after laying the foundation stone for AIIMS, Rajkot.
Modi said the scientists and all those burning their midnight oil to improve the country’s health infrastructure also deserve lot of respect.
“This is also the year to remember those who selflessly served the poor and ensured that they did not sleep hungry for so many months,” he said.