NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, JULY 1
A total of Rs 1.5 crore was paid as compensation to the families of three health workers from Gujarat who died due to coronavirus infection in the line of duty on National Doctors Day, an official release said on Wednesday.
The compensation, in the form of insurance pay-out, was paid under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package, the state government said.
These `corona warriors” were head nurse of Ahmedabad Civil Hospital Catherine Christian and health workers from the city Rita Christian and Regina Christian.
The three families were paid Rs 50 lakh each.
As many as 407 health workers and government officials have contracted coronavirus so far in Gujarat.
Seven of them – a doctor, two staff nurses, two women health workers, a multipurpose health supervisor and a patient attendant – died.
Claim documents of the kin of remaining four dead health workers are ready and compensation will be disbursed soon, the release said.
Greetings on #DoctorsDay#NationalDoctorsDay pic.twitter.com/VbFKJcO00y
— Vijay Rupani (Modi Ka Parivar) (@vijayrupanibjp) July 1, 2020
Rupani greets doctors on National Doctors Day, describes them as true angels in tough times like coronavirus
Describing doctors as corona warriors, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani greeted the doctors on the National Doctors Day through social media for their singular contribution and stellar performance in combating and containing global pandemic novel coronavirus COVID-19.
He said that doctors proved themselves as true angels during tough times like coronavirus. While the abbreviation Dr is used to denote Doctor, it proved to be ‘Dear’ to the people in the year 2020, devoted as they remained to lakhs of patients. The society will remain indebted to the doctors. While it is tough to work in PPE kits for eight hours, they worked in full gear for often 12 to 16 hours.
Rupani said that it was because of their devotion and dutifulness toward humanity in Gujarat that lakhs of lives could be saved from the spectre of the deadly virus.
