Heroes in White: Doctors Saved Lives During Shelling in Poonch
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00:00Nidha Fasile has said that we have found people's pain and pain. What is the pain that causes this pain?
00:30Not all heroes wear capes, some wear stethoscopes too. On the intervening 9th of May 7, where constant cross-border shelling followed after India's Operation Sindhur, 20 doctors, over 100 nurses, paramedics and staff stood like a wall in poonch. Over 40 were injured and doctors tirelessly worked for four days to treat them.
00:51There were 20 children upstairs, some on oxygen. Nurses told the parents, we won't leave your kids, we'll stay with them. And they did.
01:02We told them not to worry, we'll take care of the kids. And ma'am, there is a newborn ICU also here. There were several newborns on oxygen in the ICU. We could not shift them. Our sisters stayed with the babies, putting their lives at risk.
01:15Manav Datta, a consultant surgeon, wasted no time and came from Jammu. While people rushed out of poonch, he drove non-stop, he said.
01:21When I was shelling, I was 30 kilometers away from this place. So I drove back to this place early in the morning. My car was in the hospital.
01:35Downstairs, a splinter shell which broke the window pane was a reminder of the grim night for the doctors.
01:40Post the intense shelling, the region is slowly returning to normal. Families who had fled are now making their way back and schools in safer zones have begun reopening with caution.
01:51We'll be right back to this place.