Doc couple aims to keep city in pink of health

Aakanksha N Bhardwaj

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, April 24

Ever since the outbreak of deadly Covid, Dr Harjot Kaur and Dr Manpreet Singh, a doctor couple, have been part of a mission to check the spread of the virus.

Dr Harjot Kaur serving at the Lamba Pind dispensary here remains on her toes round the clock.

She starts her day with giving instructions to Asha workers assigned various areas to spread awareness and trace Covid suspects. Besides Covid duty, she has also been attending to patients with other ailments.

She said there was so much panic among people that they treat even normal ailment as suspected corona. She said it had become a challenging task for her to convince them not to panic. “There are several queries that these patients come with everyday and I always tell them that all they have to do is take precautions. I try to convince them that every flu is not Covid,” she said.

Dr Harjot said she would like to request everyone to be responsible at this time and listen to Asha workers and health officials. “There are some people who don’t cooperate and understand that surveys that are being done is for their own safety,” she said.

She said the door-to-door survey was being carried out since April 13. There are several challenges that a doctor has to face at this time. She said some days ago, an asthmatic patient died and people thought he was a Covid patient. “It took us some time to make them understand that it was a different case and the death did not occur because of coronavirus,” she said.

Dr Manpreet Singh, a dentist, too, has been risking his life by providing oral care to patients. “My father was in the BSF. I have learnt from him how to defeat the enemy from front. This time, the enemy is a virus, but we will definitely defeat it,” he said.