{"id":6461,"date":"2016-04-11T09:29:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T03:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=6461"},"modified":"2016-04-11T09:29:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T03:59:11","slug":"doctor-who-postponed-wedding-another-who-worked-for-5-full-days-are-indias-new-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=6461","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who Postponed Wedding, Another Who Worked for 5 Full Days Are India\u2019s New Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"\nT<\/span>he coronavirus lockdown has affected all 1.3 billion Indians in varying degrees \u2014 migrants<\/a> have been left stranded overnight with no way to get back home, the middle class is fretting about how much longer they\u2019ll have to stay indoors, while a few residents of states like Goa<\/a> are worried about where their next meals will come from.\n\nIn all this, healthcare professionals have the most to lose, given that they\u2019re expected to not only work round the clock, but also are at risk of catching the highly contagious Covid-19<\/a>. Not being able to meet their families for weeks, doctors and nurses in the country continue to make sacrifices, putting their life on hold while the rest of the country displays general callousness.\n\nThere\u2019s no greater proof of this than the story of Dr Shifa M Mohammed. The Kerala-based surgeon, who is posted at the isolation ward in the Pariyaram medical college hospital in Kannur, cancelled her wedding to spend the night tending to patients.\n\n

During a pandemic, doctors and other healthcare professionals are the real celebrities.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\n\u201cMarriage can wait, not my patients, who are struggling for their lives in isolation wards,\u201d the doctor told Hindustan Times<\/a>. \u201cI didn\u2019t do anything great. I only did my duty\u2026 There are many like me who postponed their personal engagements,\u201d she added, turning her into another instant celebrity of the global coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe 23-year-old\u2019s parents, and to-be husband, who is based in Dubai, have readily agreed to postpone the wedding<\/a>, the report said. Until that day, Dr Mohammed will continue to treat patients at the Pariyaram medical college, which is one of the isolation centres set up by the government to deal with the 200-plus confirmed cases in Kerala.\n\nMohammed is not alone to put duty before self. Another post that doffs its hat to our doctors\u2019 sacrifices has been going viral on Facebook. An image showing Dr Sudhir Dehariya, the Chief Medical Health Officer of Bhopal returning home after a five-day shift \u2014 not to rest, but to share a cup of tea with his family \u2014 has elicited a similar response as the Kerala doctor\u2019s story.\n\nPosted by Facebook user Charudutt Acharya, the caption explains that Dr Dehariya had just returned from five days and five nights of battling the deadly virus in hospitals across the city. Referring to the doctor as a \u201csoldier\u201d, the post concludes with the apt \u201cYeh hota hai hero ki entry.\u201d In the image, the doctor is seen sitting at the recommended six-feet distance from the rest of his family, albeit with a huge smile lighting up his face.\n\n