How Empty Promises Led to the Pitiable Condition of Indian Nurses
As COVID-19 raged, nurses are being described as "COVID warriors" and "salutes" coming in from all quarters. Those employing military terminology should know that an army does not merely live on salutes, so are nurses.
Nurses treat a COVID-19 patient at a hospital in Varanasi, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. Photo: PTI
Labour4 hours ago
It wasnât until #InternationalNursesDay, on May 12, that Prime Minister Narendra Modi thought to tweet to specifically thank Indiaâs âhardworking nursing staff, who is at the forefront of fighting COVID-19â. It was a lukewarm message, compared to the last time when he had thanked nurses (as opposed to all healthcare workers) on May 12 one year earlier.