JAMMU & KASHMIR: Babli Rani, a teacher posted in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district is waging a battle against Covid-19. She volunteered to conduct the virus sampling after she tested positive for the infection in the first wave last year and has so far conducted over 15,000 tests. Babli Rani belongs to the mountainous Doda district and is posted as Headmaster in-charge in Government Boys High School Rabitar in Ganderbal. She tested positive in July last year.
“I was hospitalised for 10 days and could see the anxiety of patients and their attendants. While in the hospital bed, I realised that I should do something to fight this pandemic,” Rani said. She was even more determined when her family in Doda told her to stay on in the Valley and keep in touch over the phone about her condition. After the outbreak of the pandemic last year, people were fear-stricken and patients and their attendants were left to fend for themselves.
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J&K Teacher Turns Into A Health Worker; Record COVID-19 Sample Collection To Curb The Cases!
When a Kashmir based teacher tested positive for COVID-19, reality hit her hard. And that’s when she decided to work as a health counsellor and help the localities.
Babli Rani, originally from Bhaderwah, Doda, has been working in Kashmir for 11 years as a teacher. Things were fine until the virus caught her and when she tested negative, she signed up as a health counsellor to do her bit.
“Since schools were shut due to COVID-19 and reduced activity, I decided to work as a health functionary days after I had turned negative,” Babli said in an interview. “I was moving from one village to another in Wakoora block carrying out samples of people who contracted the virus. I was tasked to take samples, maintain data of COVID-19 positives and conduct their contact tracing. I have been doing this for months.”
GANDERBAL: With the spirit of service to humanity in her heart, a Rajouri teacher elevated the relationship between the health department and the education department to a higher level in the battle against deadly pandemic Covid-19.
Babli Rani, a teacher, who is currently posted as Headmaster at Government Boys High School Rabitar in Ganderbal District, is an unsung Covid warrior who has been serving selflessly to see people getting rid of this pandemic.
When Covid19 closed schools and Babli Rani was tested positive, she was kept in a quarantine centre from where a new phase of her life started.
Babli found a desired social worker inside her, who woke her up and started thinking to become a warrior to disseminate awareness about this deadly disease. It was then her department deployed her to the Covid duty as a team member of a surveillance team.