Nursing a success kerala’s covid warriors are trailblazers
Kerala’s success in curbing vaccine wastage and administering 74.26 lakh doses after receiving 73.39 lakh doses is testimony to the resourcefulness of its nurses – if such affirmation was needed despite Kerala’s nurses serving with distinction nationwide. Every Covishield vial can dispense 10 doses and invariably there is wastage but the data indicates that Kerala’s nurses have squeezed every last drop from each vial. When CM Vijayan tweeted his appreciation, PM Modi too joined to applaud.Of course, a robust primary health centre network that rounded up at least 10 recipients before every vial was opened helped. But the saga of Kerala’s women nurses is bigger than the vaccination miracle. They are the unheralded warriors in Kerala’s low infant and maternal mortality rates, rivalling the developed world. But an offshoot of recording 23.4 active nurses per 10,000 population against the corresponding national average of 10.6 is that many Kerala nurses must emigrate to improve economic prospects.
An early manifestation of Kerala’s socio-cultural milieu that recognised the value of educating the girl child was this out-migrating woman nurse, now a five-decade-long trend. A 2011 survey indicated that for every 100 nurses in Kerala, 43 nurses were abroad and nine lived elsewhere in India. Major destinations abroad were Saudia Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, US and UK. Expat remittances also brought material prosperity to countless families. Now the pandemic has really made Kerala’s investments in public health and human capital the envy of other states.
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