Covid-19: Actor Shikha Malhotra Resumes Nurse Duty

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Actor Shikha Malhotra  has gone back to being a nurse as Maharashtra faces a glut of coronavirus cases. Here’s why she finds the experience so fulfilling.

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00:00I'm going to show you how to do it.

00:30This one day, Janata curfew happened and then 21 days lockdown was announced by the PM Modi.

00:39So I thought, okay, this is very serious and the nursing officer inside me alarmed me that

00:44okay, if it's 21 days country lockdown, the nation needs you.

00:48And I decided then and there without giving it a second thought that I am going to join

00:52the hospital as a nursing officer.

01:03We wear two PPE kits and we have three sets of clothes and three gloves, three masks,

01:12head cover and all those three shoe covers.

01:15So that is tough because you work there for many hours and you can't drink water,

01:21you can't go to the washroom and then you feel sometimes you feel dehydrated.

01:25Actually, all the time you feel like that.

01:27So it's difficult.

01:28We are also on hydrochloroquine.

01:30I'm on this medicine for next six weeks.

01:33So this is tough to be in the ward, in the isolation ward all the time.

01:38I be there for six to eight hours at least.

01:41And then when you go through emotional trauma with everyone,

01:46that what people are, what an 87-year-old patient is fighting with,

01:50what a seven-month-old kid is going through,

01:54all those things are really a very heavy mental trauma to me also.

01:58You lose yourself in such a situation that you won't even get a body from the hospital.

02:04You'll just get a death certificate.

02:06Those all things keep haunting me.

02:12In the ward, I just want to meet everybody, all the patients,

02:16without getting scared of them that they are corona positive.

02:19No, I just go to them, I just talk to them.

02:21I want them to take out all of their heart.

02:33So in all these things, that seven-month-old cute little corona fighter,

02:39the way he smiles at me, the way he looks at me,

02:42he always keeps searching in the ward that where I am.

02:45And when will I go to him.

02:47He feels that I am the one who is wearing the uniform.

02:49Because he realized my voice.

02:51As soon as I go to him, he starts dancing.

02:53He wants to get up, he wants to come.

02:55He wants to come in my lap, but there are some protocols which I cannot cross.

03:01He's so strong.

03:02If you ask me that every day I go specially for him.

03:06First of all, entering the ward, I go check him.

03:09I make him smile.

03:11I just play with him a little bit.

03:13And then I start working.

03:15Right now, I am not an actor.

03:16I am just a citizen.

03:17Just an Indian citizen.

03:18And just a proud nursing officer.

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