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
By: Madhu Kapparath
Healthcare workers walk among a brick kiln to administer the Covid-19 vaccine to kiln workers at Kavitha village on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India on April 8, 2021. India was entirely dependent on ASHA workers to make the world's biggest vaccination drive against the coronavirus pandemic a success in rural parts of the nation.
