Doctors battle Covid at Punjab’s largest civil hospital: ‘No duty, off-duty hours’

After making frantic rounds of Covid wards at Punjab’s largest civil hospital for seven hours, Dr Bhupinder Singh has lastly taken off his PPE go well with. But there is no such thing as a time to relaxation as calls from sufferers in residence isolation and even junior docs pour in for session.
At the fore-front of treating Level-2 and Level-3 sufferers on the Jalandhar Civil Hospital since final yr, Dr Singh says his complete crew has been working 24×7 to assist individuals on the time of this mammoth disaster.
“There are no ‘duty, off-duty’ hours. We have to save lives,” he says, in between calls.
Jalandhar Civil Hospital has 200 beds are devoted for the L-2 sufferers and 56 beds are for the L-3 sufferers. The crew of docs right here says that the second wave is completely different as it’s bringing in additional crucial sufferers.
“For the last over one year, my job has been to attend the Covid patients. The only difference I could notice between the first and the second wave is that now the disease seems more infectious and the number of critical cases are more,” mentioned Dr Singh.
Adding that he’s on name round the clock, he says: “We are not worried about our personal lives but are only focusing on our patients so that we can save their lives. We want to educate others to help the medical fraternity by following the norms and remaining at home if there is no work outside.”
An MBBS from Government Rajindra Medical College, Patiala, and MD in Medical from Government Amritsar Medical College, Dr Singh was additionally the primary physician at Jalandhar Civil Hospital to take the vaccine jab, when most docs have been nonetheless cautious.
“I was never afraid of attending Covid patients from the day one. I had even refused a promotion, which would have kept me away from patients because after promotion my job would be of administrative nature,” he added.
On May 7 final yr, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh had spoken to the physician on video name and appreciated his work.
“My only humble request to the people is that people should save their and others lives and should not burden the health infrastructures which have already stretched to its limits,” he mentioned, including individuals ought to take measures to cease changing into a service.
But he isn’t the one one within the household working with out go away to serve Covid sufferers.
His spouse, Dr Satinder Kaur, is a pathologist within the Civil Hospital and stays equally busy together with her work within the battle towards the pandemic. “The virus has changed our lives. Not only do we maintain distance from our families,” she mentioned.