There is always a means to an end and here in the nursing station situated on the first floor of the GNM building in the Covid Care Center in Medinirai Medical College and Hospital in Daltonganj two PPE wearing nurses use their common skill by using one small card each to double up as hand fans in this summer.
The nursing station has neither any table fan nor any ceiling fan and these nurses in their PPE kits are to do a minimum of six hours of duty. Nurses said the PPE kits double up the body heat as it is not advisable to keep any part of it open as then it defeats the very purpose for which it is so worn. It is to ward off the invisible enemy the coronavirus.
The great thing about the nurses who have their duties in the nursing station is that they are never complaining or demanding either about the fans. Sources said they look resigned to their fate.
When this situation was brought to the notice of the civil surgeon Anil Kumar Srivastav, he said he found this only today and within hours now today itself there would be at least one pedestal fan operating here. He said he would ensure it.
He said our nurses, ambulance drivers, cleanliness staff and doctors have left thinking of their comforts and work day and night to serve the ailing people. The district administration is knocking at opulent houses to help the district in having health facilities.
A couple of industrialists and coal operators here were spoken to by the DC Shashi Ranjan asking them to do corporate service responsibility for the benefit of those fighting Covid in the Covid care hubs here.
The DC said these people should come up fast with munificence in terms of things like pulse oximeters, regulators, oxygen masks, beds and other things most essential for the health care.
Ranjan said in a couple of days from now there would be around one thousand pulse oximeters with the district which will be given to block level health officials to make use of it for the benefit of the common people to keep them aware of their oxygen status.
The DC said that they understand the big faces of the industry and coal operators here will soon help us to further equip our rural health care units which lack many of the basic things.
