Vadodara: During the second wave of COVID-19 this year, Dr Shilpa Patel also lost her mother, who was battling the deadly virus, in the COVID ICU at Government SSG Hospital.
While her 77-year-old mother Kanta Ambalal Patel passed away at 3.30 am, Dr Shilpa, an associate professor in the Department of Anatomy donned her PPE suit within six hours, living up to her mother’s words – before everyone else Obligation!
Like him, many doctors in Vadodara hospitals had held back in trying to save other people’s lives, whether they themselves had lost their parents or their loved ones to the coronavirus.
“Based on rotation, my COVID duty was to start at 9 am on that day. But my mother left before that,” recalls Dr Shilpa, adding that hours before she passed away, her mother insisted that she stop worrying and focus on her duty.
“My parents always taught me to work with dedication. And it inspired me to keep working even during those tough times,” said the doctor, who along with his brother had wrapped his mother’s body in an ambulance as per the Covid protocol and returned to the hospital to join duty. He was cremated before.
Dr Rahul Parmar, who served as the nodal officer as part of the COVID management and body disposal team at the largest hospital in central Gujarat, is back on duty after performing the cremation rituals of his 67-year-old mother Kanta Parmar. Had gone.
His mother died in Gandhinagar due to age related problems. Dr Parmar, who is with the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, returned to duty the very next day.
At Parul Sewashram Hospital, Medical Administrator Dr Kripa Vaghela continued to serve the Covid-19 patients despite personal loss.
Dr Kripa’s parents had tested positive when she was working as the nodal officer for the COVID-19 unit. He also lost his father, who was undergoing treatment, but he continued to serve in the hospital without taking a day off.
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