Mincing Words - Not !!

Hello everyone! I hope all of you are fine and following the rules of lockdown. Today is the 18th day and we are almost at the end of the initial lockdown period. Although there has been some news about the lockdown being extended in few of the states which are hotspots for the coming up cases still I feel that the government might allow a little restricted movement for economic purposes. The reason why lockdown was sought was to control the spread of this pandemic and avoid overburdening our health care system. The current figures represent that we have been a little successful in what we thought we could achieve from this lockdown but there are certain confounding factors like the lack of testing capacity in most of the states in our country. I hope it all goes according to the plan and with the increasing testing capacity, we are able to control this disease in all of the states like Kerala and Rajasthan. Today's blog is a little special for me as I will be discussing an ex...

Hello everyone! So I am back again with another blog but this time I am writing to you after 72 hours. I have taken 24 more hours to come back and talk just because there have been some problems which I have faced in the duties which we have in Corona Clinic. So, I will straight away get to the point that for the past 72 hours I have been pretty busy as in the first 24 hours I was posted from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on regular duty hours in my department. The next 24 hours saw me doing my first duty in the screening clinic in which I am supposed to sit wearing personal protective equipment and swab all the patients which come as suspected cases. Before, when I was in touch and described that we underwent a lot of training still when I reached the clinic yesterday I found out that there were many discrepancies in the training which the staff posted there had been getting.  When I reached there yesterday I observed that there was no coordination between our department and the d...