Mohan Kuthar

Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (EP)

Mangaluru, May 19: While coronavirus cases peak, senior nurse at Natekal primary health centre into nursing profession for the last 36 years has not availed leave for a long time. She has worked continuously on her own wish and is due to retire at the end of May. She is the wife of the director of state backward class commission, K C Suvarna. Though she has the facilities, she has been service oriented.

Ramakunja, Uppinangady resident Yogini was raised in a poor farmer’s family. She obtained nursing training at district Wenlock hospital and joined work soon after it. She initially joined as junior nurse at Indiranagar government hospital, Bengaluru. She got transferred to the health centres in Mangaluru after five years of service. After serving at Kurnadu Boliaru primary health centre, she worked at district health centre as a nurse for several years. She has worked as a senior nurse at Natekal primary health centre for the last five years. She has been cooperative with her colleagues throughout her service period. “As I looked after the patients with love, they too have loved me. Therefore, retirement is not joyful,” she said.

“I was very afraid while working during the Corona wave. As I was growing old, my family members at home were persuading me not to go to work. But I was attending to my duties considering the scarcity of doctors and nurses. I have been working taking Corona as a challenge without availing even a day’s leave for the last two months. As I will be retiring in another one month, I will retire serving the people. We came to know that wearing masks and maintaining our immunity is the weapon against Corona. I am keeping them in mind during my work,” she said.

Natekal primary health centre lab technical officer Jaleel who worked with Yogini for the last five years said that Yogini was a guide to all. “She used to make sure that everything goes right in the hospital. I used to look after outside work. As Yogini was working without break, her absence for us will be like working with broken hands,” he said.