Mothers of Mercy: Life of ASHA workers during the pandemic

World Health Organisation (WHO) recently honoured ASHA volunteers for their crucial role in the pandemic. Here's a tribute to India's one million, all-women ASHA volunteers who, through the pandemic, knocked on the doors of cramped urban jhuggis and isolated rural villages on foot to educate, vaccinate, and save lives as if they were their own
Published: May 25, 2022
Polio drops

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  • Mothers of Mercy: Life of ASHA workers during the pandemic
  • ASHA worker
  • Healthcare workers
  • Vaccine
  • ASHA Geeta Chaudry
  • Asha Worker Matilda Kullu
  • Covishield vaccine
  • Vaccine boxes
  • Asha workers Staff
  • Elderly vaccination
  • ASHA Worker Sunitha K N
  • awareness campaign and surveys
  • door-to-door survey
  • Polio drops
  • ASHA and Anganwadi workers protest

An ASHA worker administers polio drops to a kid during the door to door drive in Gurugram on September 27, 2021. In addition to Covid-19 duties, these workers performed ‌their‌ ‌regular‌ work‌, ‌including ‌assisting‌ ‌deliveries,‌ ‌immunisation‌ ‌drives,‌ ‌sterilisation‌ ‌camps‌ ‌and‌ ‌staffing‌ ‌the‌ Public Health Centres.