Volunteers and health workers are the ones people rely on

Pandemic teaches everyone a lesson in gratitude and appreciation

More than a year since they started tending to COVID-19 patients, healthcare workers have remained the support that the families could not offer to patients. Doctors, nurses, ward boys, ambulance drivers and mortuary workers have calmed agitated patients and reassured terrified families as they continue their work. Many of them have to stay away from their families and children. These tireless people who work behind the screens have earned the appreciation and gratitude of patients and their families. In the pandemic that relentlessly makes its way through cities and towns, people the healthcare workers tended to have learned the importance of these unsung heroes and heroines.