COVID-19 : Residents Narratives - A Tale of Mumbai's Resident Doctors

Covid-19 Residents Narratives- A Tale of Mumbai Resident Doctors is amemoir that brings to life the real-life experiences and situations that the resident doctors working in Mumbai medical colleges faced during the initial 2 years of covid-the 19 pandemic. Mumbai being the financial capital of India has a robust public health system and the 4 tertiary care hospitals and medical colleges form the main backbone of it. Working in these hospitals the postgraduate residents are the oxygen on which this health care system runs. They are the first line of defence and also the first line of care that the patient encounters when they enter any of the government medical colleges. Faced with an unknown enemy in the form of a disease that wasn't there just a few days back the following horrors the lockdown the complete cut-off from home and the responsibility to handle the ever-increasing patient load how these resident doctors handled themselves the care they provided the support system they formed and above all the unwavering spirit of patient care beyond anything shown by these medicos forms the crux of this book. From page one till the end each page tells a different tale and will be engaging for the reader to get to know how the doctors worked and saved lives. A must read.