Days before her retirement, when nursing superintendent Joan Mary Prescilla received requests from her hospital dean to continue working as it prepared for the coronavirus pandemic, everyone knew she would not refuse. And as Tamil Nadu’s coronavirus counts grew week after week, the workload at the hospital increased for doctors, nurses and paramedical staff. Prescilla would continue to work from home, guiding other nurses over the phone till 10.30 or 11 at night. She was a fire warrior in Kumbakonam, a tsunami warrior in Nagapattinam, and a Covid warrior at the end,” said Ebanezer Arul Selvam, her brother, a social science schoolteacher in Vellore. “But medicine remained on her mind — she opted for nursing,” Ebanezer said.

Source: The Telegraph May 29, 2020 22:29 UTC