Dealing with pregnant women wasn’t easy amid pandemic: Assistant Civil Surgeon

Aakanksha N Bhardwaj

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, May 26

Being at the forefront, dealing with vulnerable pregnant women, guiding and counselling them is not easy amid the pandemic, but Dr Varinder Kaur, Assistant Civil Surgeon, has done it with great success and now manages the administrative works with equal dedication.

She says Covid has taught her a thing in life that one has to be a minimalist. “One doesn’t need a lot to live. Be original and I have really detoxified myself,” says the Assistant Civil Surgeon, who has been working in Jalandhar since 2008.

Since the pandemic started, Dr Varinder Kaur, who was posted as a senior gynaecologist at the Civil Hospital last year, helped Covid positive mothers deliver 10 to 12 babies. She had also delivered triplets of a non-Covid patient.

Since January this year, her profile has changed and she deals with administrative work which also carries a lot of responsibilities. “When I was clinically dealing with patients directly, we had set up a different delivery room for Covid patients. We used to wear PPE kits to perform surgeries on Covid patients. There were no fixed timings when we dealt with the patients, and we even went for deliveries late at night, but that gave me immense satisfaction. I have always believed that when you help a patient out, nothing else can give you more happiness,” the doctor said.

Talking about her routine, the doctor says that now there are more meetings that she attends, with senior health officials and administration, etc. “Now, I have become more patient and less impulsive,” she says, adding that along with her daughter, she exercises and calls it ‘Me time’.

She said that when the pandemic had kicked in, private hospitals were not treating Covid cases, and every pregnant mother had trust on Jalandhar’s Civil Hospital, as “we have a dedicated and experienced team”.

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