Care for the frontliners

The government must immediately provide risk allowances to all Covid-19 frontline workers.

On Saturday, Kabita Pathak, a doctor at the Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital in Pokhara, had a surprise visitor at the isolation centre where she has been staying for the past one week as she is on Covid-19 duty. The visitor had brought several packets of tiffin for her and her colleagues. It turned out that her friends at ‘What The Book Club’, a local readers’ group, had prepared the food to express their gratitude for the excellent work Dr Pathak and her colleagues have been doing in our collective fight against the pandemic. In the evening, the elated doctor tweeted photos of herself and her friends cherishing the kheer , puri and achar her friends had lovingly prepared for them. Little gestures matter.