By Dr. Keerthana Rajkumar, MD, M.Sc (Cardiology)
It was 2 pm on a hot and humid afternoon in Vellore. I was slightly late for my shift. Hustling through the hospital corridors, suddenly I felt uneasy. In my head I was going over the sequence in which I had to ‘don’ my PPE. My mother’s voice in my head, ‘be extra careful’.






