One nurse from Holy Family Hospital Delhi (NDTV 9pm May 11, 2021) said that there is no time even to grieve, express our emotions.
Can we hear them, or their silence will be continued to be taken for granted and exploited? Do we know that they too have a family and a future, and personal ailments?
What the nurses and other health care workers need is not flowery praises like 'angels' and 'warriors,' they need dignified salary and due rest as any other professionals.
The burden upon them, especially in this time of pandemic is unbearable. Their lives and commitment will be valued only when the entire healthcare system is given priority over many profit making choices.
It is from the great contribution of these health care workers that "India squandered the early achievements" and brought to the present stage of crisis. Even now the priority does not seem to be in attending to the emergency and making immediate and alternative arrangement. It might bring very pathetic and helpless situation for the nurses in the Third Wave, and their silence will be taken for granted as ever.
Courts, media, political parties who were silent when the crowding occurred in different occasions that contributed to this spread, must see and speak for the health care workers now if they value their service in itself and for the sake of their contribution in the third wave which is said to be 'inevitable.'
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