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War Against COVID Health

DOCTOR'S DAY - JULY 1
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OF HUMANITY

Life is the biggest gift of god but when our life is in danger doctors turn to saviors to
protect us. During the Covid pandemic when we were restricted to our homes, it was the
doctors who protected us in the hour of crisis. According to a report, about 1490 doctors
sacrificed their lives while fighting Covid, in an effort to protect us from the pandemic.
This year on National Doctor's Day on 1st July, let's salute the spirit of selfless services
and perseverance by doctors...

t was on 29 January 2020, a team headed by Priya
Abraham at the National Institute of Virology,
Doctor's Day celebrated in the memory of IPune, found the Covid virus for the first time in a
BC Roy, symbolizes the highest ideals of sample of three people in India. These three people
our doctors, and our medical community. had returned from Wuhan. With the confirmation of
Especially, the way our doctors have served the case, a feeling of fear gripped her. A disease for
the countrymen during the Covid period is which there was no known cure by that time. When
an example in itself. On behalf of 130 crore Priya Abraham and her team confirmed the first
countrymen, I thank all the doctors of the case in India, the National Virology Institute in Pune
country and express my gratitude. was the only lab in the country to have a COVID test
-Narendra Modi, Prime Minister facility. The fear of this unknown disease was slowly
engulfing the nation. Also, at that time there was the
unpreparedness in the health infrastructure of the
country to deal with such kind of crisis. A new virus,
which till then no one knew how to fight. The virus
was also mutating. But our scientists and doctors
rose to the occasion by finding solutions and
developing effective medicines. Strict lockdown
and preparations were carried out in the midst of it.
Also, our doctors devoted themselves to the cause
by putting in extra hours of work to save lives. India's
high population makes this challenge more difficult.

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