Women patients at this Ambur COVID-19 Care Centre feel at home
The Hindu
The storytelling sessions for children by elderly women, singing and playing games have made the exclusive CCC for women a place that patients miss once they are discharged.
The fear that 72-year-old Yesodha, a daily wage earner from Sanankuppam in Ambur experienced when she tested COVID-19 positive faded away when she was admitted in the exclusive COVID-19 Care Centre (CCC) for women in Ambur, Tirupathur district. She considered other women patients and medical staff as family and told stories to children. Even the doctors fondly addressed her as ‘paati’ (grandmother). From daily storytelling sessions for children by elderly women to singing songs and playing games — the exclusive CCC has become a place that children and elders miss once they get discharged. “Ms. Yesodha is a widow and does not have children. She earned a living from the MGNREGA and cooked by herself. So she was very happy being among so many people. She was discharged recently without any complications. We will go and meet her soon,” said Madhurya Arithra, a medical officer at the centre.More Related News