How a tribal woman helped her community in a Chhattisgarh village during Covid-19 | Meta Stories of Strength 2022 News,The Indian Express
The challenge was to keep the services on for the community without putting them at an increased risk of getting infected.
The challenge was to keep the services on for the community without putting them at an increased risk of getting infected.
New Delhi: It was in 2001 when a timid and shy Bhagwatee Porte, who lives in Karpiha village of Chhattisgarh, joined JSS on the advice of her husband, mother-in-law and the elders of her village. Today, the 47-year-old beams with pride as everyone in the village knows her.
“Iss gaon mein keval ek bahu bankar aaye the, lekin ab swasthya karyakarta hain aur humari pure gaon, saare bache-badon mein pehchan hai (I came to this village as a daughter-in-law but now I am a health worker and everyone in the village – old or young – knows me),” she says.
JSS is a registered, non-profit society of health professionals running low-cost health programmes in tribal and rural areas of Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh. In 2020, when the Covid pandemic first hit the country, it brought several challenges for frontline workers like Bhagwatee. During the second wave, between April and May 2021, the healthcare system and health workers were under unprecedented pressure. At least one or two members in each household of Karphia village were experiencing Covid symptoms during this period.
It was during this time that the JSS had to modify guidelines and activities of its village health programme. The situation demanded quick decisions, simultaneous learning and implementation of those learnings.
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