Dr Anupma Gupta: An epitome of strength and courage

GS Paul
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, May 18

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Dr Anupma Gupta, who lost her legs in a vehicle pile-up, near Bandala village, on the Amritsar-Bathinda highway last year, is the perfect example of bravery and strength.

Five months after this tragic accident, Dr Anupma, head of the anatomy department at Dashmesh Institute of Dental Sciences and Research in Faridkot, has convinced herself to accept the reality and move on in the life. And now to contribute her bit in fight against the Covid-19, she has started taking online classes so that students do not suffer due to the lockdown.

“While sitting on my wheelchair, I could do it. This is the only way I could justify my duty. I teach my students on Zoom app. It gives me energy to move on and be strong. When I will be self-sufficient, I would rejoin my duty”, she said.

With her strong will power, she is trying to live a normal life. She has resumed her studies and working hard to complete her PhD in dermatoglyphics. Besides, she is also trying her hand in painting these days.

“I am all prepared to undergo the prosthesis process. But due to the lockdown, my visit to New Delhi for the rehabilitation training process has been delayed. It is a mandatory two-month

course that I will have to attend. I am in touch with the service providers from Germany and the US from whom the prosthetic implant would be imported and assembled here”, she said.

Around 7.30 am on December 10, Dr Anupma, head of the anatomy department at Dashmesh Dental College, Faridkot, and her colleague were on their way to the college when she spotted a

head-on crash of vehicles. Putting her social responsibility as a doctor above all, she immediately asked her colleague to stop the car and rushed to rescue the injured persons. As she was trying to open a mangled door of one of the cars involved in the pile-up, a bus coming from the rear hit her, leaving her unconscious. She lost her legs in the mishap.

Dr Anupma said her husband Dr Raman Gupta, daughter Dr Arushi and son Raghav, also a medical student, were her pillars of strength. “That fateful day brought a total change in my life, yet I believe that the Almighty had pre-planned it to put me in another frame to experience a different life. Whatever has to happen, happens. There is no point wailing and going in depression. I have not given up because I believe that every problem has a solution and you just need to have the valour and willpower to accept the situation ”, she says.