Today’s national doctor’s day, we ask a leading doctor from the whole country how the pandemic has changed their perspectives to their lives and profession.
This is Dr Kunal Sarkar, Sr.
Deputy Chairperson & Chair of the Heart Surgeon at Medica Superspecialty Hospital, Kolkata, must say: Not only doctors or medical professionals, but maybe in the last five generations, both in the century, there has never been an unpleasant wrestling challenge with unknown.
This requires almost 100 years of medicine.
For the past 150 years, we must have a very significant increase in treating lifestyle, cancer, kidney and brain disease.
But for a good part of 10 years on a 100-year medical trip, this is the first time we are aware of the difficult way that infection disorders can return and create chaos.
Humans are now struggling with man-made problems.
It is very clear that this is not a natural pandemic.
So, it doesn’t behave like a past pandemic like Spanish flu or SARS-COV-1.
This is the first example when humans struggle hard to diseases created by themselves.
Time and more people have labeled US soldiers.
But we are soldiers without bulletproof vests.
No one forced us, but we ourselves went to the shooting line with very little protection.
Only in our country, we lost around 1,500 doctors for this war.
This may not be different from the victims who took place in the Indian War in 1965 and 1971.
And it was not just a doctor.
We lost so many people.
We lost more lives than we did in two years of our struggle for independence.
And all this without firing bullets.
So, from the point of view of a doctor, we are in a dark forest and in holding a very gloomy torch in our hands.
It’s no absolute darkness but the light is too thin.
The prospect of vaccination has made everything a little better than what it will happen without it.