Baltimore, MD – A Taiwanese nurse in a protective suit standing against COVID-19. A Ugandan nurse cradling a newborn she has helped deliver. A community nurse in Guatemala tending to a farmer alongside his bull. Today more than ever, as a pandemic sweeps across the globe, the impact of nurses can’t be underestimated. Nurses deliver care to the majority of people in the world—and it’s time
Madhubani District, Bihar With 13 years of experience, auxiliary nurse midwife (ANM) Jayanti has been working at the 30-bedded community health center (CHC) at Khutauna in Madhubani district of Bihar and is not new to managing risks and complications. But when COVID-19 arrived and started spreading fast, she found it hard to ascertain all the
Kechri village, Block Todabhim, District Karauli, Rajasthan Meena Kumari Jataw, an auxiliary nurse midwife (ANM) workingfor the last 11 years at a sub center in Rajasthan’s Machri village, is witnessing the perils of the pandemic on the bodies and minds of people every day. Surrounded by the Aravalli mountain range, this agrarian village makes for
