Indian- American Sikh Doctor returns to native, helps India fight Covid19

  • | Tuesday | 11th May, 2021

Harmandeep Singh Boparai, 34, who was working as a frontline worker in New York, Unites States, is currently treating Covid patients in his hometown Amritsar. 

As the nation struggles to contain a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, this 34-year-old Indian-American Sikh doctor has returned to his roots and is doing his bit in defeating the virus.

Harmandeep Singh Boparai, who was working as a frontline worker in New York, Unites States, is currently treating Covid patients in his home town Amritsar.

His next stop will be a 1,000-bed hospital in Mumbai, where he has been roped in by Doctors Without Borders, an international medical humanitarian organisation. He is scheduled to leave for Mumbai on Monday and will serve at the facility for the next couple of weeks.

Harman says he would continue extending his help to all those in need until the situation becomes normal in India. His father, RPS Boparai, is an orthopaedic specialist, while his mother, late Gian Kaur, was a gynaecologist.

“As soon as I came back to India, though the cases were not so high at the time, I started talking to the doctors here on how we can build capacity in case cases surge, apart from strengthening the infrastructure to handle any kind of crisis. Soon enough, we saw a catastrophic rise in the cases in India. I have been able to build a capacity for intensive care at Dukh Niwaran Hospital, besides imparting training to the nurses and doctors regarding the Covid protocol that I learnt in New York during the first wave,” Harman said.

Dukh Niwaran Hospital, which has now been given on lease, was run by Harman’s father as a charitable hospital.

He said, “Doctors in the health department, especially in Punjab, have been working so hard in order to save lives. We must continue to support them and give them our best wishes and solidarity, for this is not an easy job.”

 


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