Bangalore July 5th 2021: Doctors’ Day on July 01, represents 16 months of the ongoing pandemic. 16 months of selflessness, devotion, kindness, sacrifice, brilliance, hard work and working through their fear of an invisible threat. The relevance of Doctors’ Day is more prominent and important now than ever. Most doctors, nurses and legions of people in the healthcare field were swept away in the Covid storm and stayed away from families, carrying on with a lonely and thankless role. This heart-wrenching sacrifice in the line of duty is incomparable, a harrowing darkness that most of us will never experience. Of course we needed to celebrate doctors, more now than ever. The pandemic has shown who the real superheroes of our time are, and the people in a position to make a difference. We finally get to reassess the value health-care workers hold in our lives and see them as the precious resource that they are
This time last year, this date was celebrated on Zoom, in hospitals across the country. Bangalore North Ladies Circle 14 and Bangalore North Round Table 25 performed a very fitting ode to doctors. They conducted a felicitation project at Navachethanna Hospital in Yelahanka, Bangalore. 175 staff members were felicitated with boxes of sweets and personalized thank you cards. Drawings made by kids from ages 3 to 13 were also presented to the hospital, to display in their wards. They made sure to reach out to the doctors, nurses, administrative members, maintenance staff, and security guards… every single person at the forefront of the pandemic, the visible ones and the invisible ones. At the height of the pandemic, when there was a shortage of both nurses and doctors, members from every single department at this hospital volunteered to assist in the wards. The first thing the Managing Director of the Hospital, Dr. GirishChandra, mentioned, was that no one had done anything like this in the past 16 months, not even the patients they were treating. They were truly grateful to receive a thank you gesture from outsiders. This is the purpose of this article. To get people to step out and do the smallest gestures for healthcare professionals. As Paulo Coelho says: when you want something badly enough, the entire universe conspires in helping you achieve it. The readers are all part of that universe. We all should be conspiring to help as many people as possible, in all the ways possible, in all the places possible and in all the times possible.
