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A senior resident doctor at the Safdarjung Hospital, Dr Shilpi Vishnoi shilpi@123
experienced her Covid journey in a hospital in Kanpur, where she was working in critical care.
Because of wearing PPE kit for long hours and sweating profusely, Dr shilpi@123 got a fungal infection. Her hands also cracked with blood coming out of them, as she got an allergic reaction on her hands from the gloves.
Along with confusion and fear, all doctors went through an experience like never before during the pandemic. Dr Shilpi had to wear a diaper because in her 8 hours of duty, they didn't get a PPE kit again. There is a proper process of removal of the kit, hence one can't drink water and go to the washroom.
Once during her duty, she fainted because of dehydration, and she also has been Covid positive multiple times. "You can't work, you can't walk wearing a PPE. I was not even able to see anything. It was very difficult to write, as we had to write reports. There were double masks and double gloves which lead to excessive suffocation and fogging during the summer months," she says.
Once Dr Shilpi's condition deteriorated so much that she herself had to get admitted in a Covid ward. For one year, she lived in a separate space on a different floor away from her family in order to protect them. "Even at home, I was not staying with them," she adds.
During the second wave, Dr Shilpi's worst fear came true as her whole family tested positive. "The families of doctors are always at risk."
Being a doctor, she felt responsible to take care of her family, not thinking about her own fragile health.
She feels doing Covid duty is a mental trauma in itself. "As when we are sick, we want our family. Whereas in Covid, it's not possible," she says.
She felt devastated seeing patients begging for family. "The maximum we could do is make them talk over video calls, but sometimes the time was too less, maybe in moments like these you realise - we come alone, we die alone."