Three men who cared for coronavirus positive patients in the Covid ward of Dr BR Ambedkar Memorial Hospital here despite being Covid positive themselves were honored for their services on Tuesday.
Dr Santosh Singh Patel from the Ophthalmology Department said the three men were asymptomatic.
“Along with hospital staff these three men helped the Covid positive patients while providing food packets, assisting serious patients in their daily routine and connecting patients with their families on mobile phone,” Dr Patel said in a press release.
CISF Sub-Inspector Satish Meena, health worker and Ambedkar Hospital office staffer Gyanesh Yadav and Forest Guard Niranjan Prasad Sahu were honoured for their services by the Head of Department Respiratory Medicine, Dr R.K. Panda.
Sahu, a Forest Guard at Jungle Safari in Naya Raipur, was admitted in the Covid ward in September.
“I was physically fit. In the corona ward family members of Covid patients are not allowed. So, I also cared for them. It gave me immense happiness,” Sahu was quoted as saying in the press release.
Meena said while he was in the Covid ward, many times patients had to be shifted to ICU. I used to help in transferring the stretcher trolley. It was really a very satisfactory experience, he said.
