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Shot in the arm for health workers: From facing harassment to being among the first to get vaccine
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Shot in the arm for health workers: From facing harassment to being among the first to get vaccinePTI
Last Updated: Jan 16, 2021, 09:12 PM IST
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Several hundreds of healthcare workers, from doctors to sanitation workers at hospitals, were given shots of COVID-19 vaccine at 81 centres, after the world s largest vaccination drive was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi across the country.
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal presents a flower to a medic during the COVID-19 vaccination drive, at LNJP Hospital in New Delhi.
NEW DELHI: For Biji Tomy, a nurse who received the very first Covid-19 vaccine shot at the LNJP Hospital here on Saturday, it was a historic moment that helped her leave behind the unpleasant memories of her colleagues being harassed and taunted as potential coronavirus carriers in the early days of the pandemic.
Hailing from Kerala, the 48-year-old healthcare worker at the state-run facility told PTI, When the pandemic outbreak happened in Delhi in March, everyone was afraid and uncertain about the future, and many doctors and nurses had to face harassment and taunts from neighbours in the initial days as potential carriers of infection , and some landlords had threatened to evict them.