1. The Medical Fraternity.
No doctor or nurse have run away despite the fact that for nearly two years now, they have not taken leave and suffered physical and mental stress of seeing people die despite their best efforts and not being able to attend to sick family members. They have been in the middle of an unknown, unpredictable virus, risking their own lives!
2. The Police.
They have been maintaining law and order, trying to infuse a sense of discipline in our heads.
3. The Network of Institutions.
They have collectively developed and approved two vaccines, ramped up production and have been producing vaccines.
4. The CoWin Team.
Look at the team of vaccine administrators who administer vaccine and send you home with a certificate.
5. The Defence Forces.
They have one foot entrenched on the icy heights of Ladakh, facing the Chinese and another in the west, fighting terrorists. Even when their medical resources were stretched, they found time and manpower to add thousands of additional beds, fly-in and ship-in medicines and equipment. Does anyone know if they sleep?
6. The Indian Railways.
They moved medicines, medical equipment and consumables, essential commodities, food grains across the country. They created mobile Covid hospitals in coaches, treated employees and citizens infected with Covid in railway hospitals, kept the macro-economy going by moving coal to thermal power plants, ores to factories, etc. They ferried migrant labour across India to their homes. Railwaymen worked round the clock risking their own lives to Covid.
7. The DRDO.
They used all their resources to develop an inexpensive drug, in less than a year. The West wanted 18-36 months.
8. The MEA.
Using all the diplomatic goodwill developed over time, they arranged to get help from all the advanced countries.
9. The MSMEs.
Are generating oxygen in every nook and corner of the country and donating them for free!
10. The Class IV Employees.
11. The Crematorium Staff.
12. The NGOs.
The list is endless.........but....
thousands of recoveries are neither headline nor TV bytes, ten deaths are......!
Tailpiece.
Got up around a quarter past 6, opened up the house and put on the music. Mithun and Ammu took off by 0940 hrs to Thiruvananthapuram to complete her medical formalities, while Sanil accompanied them to visit his mom at Ayur and to oversee the work by the constructors of his house.
Participated in the Aazhchakkoottam : "How to defend against Black Fungus" by Dr John Panicker, CEO & National Expert, ENT, Santhwana Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram from 1600 to 1715 hrs. The horrific nature of the ailment was brought out.
It was a quiet evening!
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