Published 16:00 IST, April 7th 2020
World Health Day: Netizens pay ode to healthcare workers on frontline against COVID-19
On this World Health Day, lets stand up and join hands to celebrate the work of nurses and midwives who work tirelessly in keeping the world healthy.
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This year amid increasing crisis due to coronavirus outbreak, world is standing up and joining hands to celebrate work of nurses and midwives and set a reminder for all world leers about critical role y play in keeping world healthy on this World Health Day. Celebrated every year on April 7, day is to ackwledge hard work and contribution of doctors, nurses and or health workers in this field.
An ode to nurses and midwife
During this pandemic outbreak, healthcare professionals are considered to be soldiers standing at upfront in this war to battle disease. relevance of World Health Day 2020 cant be more prominent and important than this year.
Several nurses and or health workers are at forefront of COVID-19 response and are working tirelessly in providing high-quality treatment, tender care, wiping off fears, collecting data for clinical studies and many more tasks that are incomplete without nurses.
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According to a statement released by official website of WHO, "In this International Year of Nurse and Midwife, organization will highlight current status of nursing all around world. It will in amalgamation with its partners make a series of recommendations to strengn nursing and midwifery workforce."
statement called initiative an important step to achieve national and global targets related to health cover, child health, infectious and n-communicable diseases including mental health, emergency preparedness and response which are a must after seeing current situation globally. This day is aimed to stand in support of nurses and midwifery workforces so that y are strong eugh to ensure that everyone, everywhere gets best healthcare y need.
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'A salute to doctors'
Apart from this, several users flooded social media with ir posts to salute and applauded hard work of doctors and entire medical team in this hour of crisis. users shared stories, pictures and even me placards for nurses, doctors who are sacrificing ir life just to treat patients.
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16:10 IST, April 7th 2020