Prolonged duty shifts, watching patients die every day or family members pleading to save their lives, doctors on COVID duty in Delhi say they went through unimaginable mental agony during the worst phase of the second wave of the pandemic. From government hospitals to private facilities, the calamitous second wave in Delhi not only strained healthcare infrastructure to its limits, but also affected the physical and psychological well-being of doctors and other healthcare workers.
Dr. Suranjit Chatterjee, a senior consultant at Apollo Hospitals here, said the daily cases count dropping in the last few days has come as breather as it was an “absolute nightmare” in the COVID wards before. “We are trained as doctors to handle pain and deaths in front of us, but the sheer number of fatalities everyday, when you see your patients in unbearable pain or their relatives pleading to save their lives or when they are struggling on ventilators, one feels helpless against this raging virus,” he told PTI.
Chatterjee, himself a COVID survivor who was infected last year, said the last 20-25 days of his job has “changed his life”. “We are hardened professionals but we are also humans at the end of the day, and to see our own colleagues and family friends suffering in pain and then die with such a severity and frequency, it became unbearable,” he recalled.
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