Manipur, India—It’s 2:00 p.m. and Ranita Maibam pauses outside her house to rub her hands with hand sanitizer. She has just returned from a 10-hour shift tending to people in quarantine who have had close contact with COVID-19. Her quarantine duty, held at a school converted into an isolation unit, is in addition to her
Hope you are all well and safe! These are undoubtedly unprecedented times. We are dealing with, possibly, the worst pandemic of our lifetimes, forcing an abrupt paradigm shift in the way we live, work and interact with the world. It weighs heavy on my heart that by the time you receive this mail, the numbers
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
