Nagpur: Senior inspector Narendra Hiware, who was instrumental in quarantining around 1,300 residents of Satranjipura last year, this week took the Covidshield vaccine at police hospital in the city.
“Around 10 months ago, our vaccines were vitamin C tablets, kadha, mask, sanitizers and steam inhalation. Insecurity and anxiety had ruled days and nights of every policeman as our colleagues were testing positive or dying,” Hiware, who joined the department in 1993, said.
Hiware, now posted at Ambazari police station, was left to handle the first corona case and also the first death in Vidarbha last year at Satranjipura when the place was on the focus of national media with corona chain spreading fast in the locality.
As a senior inspector of Lakadganj police station, Hiware had to protect the containment zone of the volatile Satranjipura for several weeks leading to a deployment of almost 80-100 cops round the clock. “It was a Herculean task to quarantine almost a locality and then containing it for weeks. Many of my colleagues had fallen to the Corona virus at Satranjipura but I had somehow emerged unscathed and so did my family,” he said.
Hiware said after being a Covid warrior now he wants to turn to Vaccine warrior by spreading awareness about it. “After taking the vaccine, I had performed duty whole day and again had returned for the night duty too,” said Hiware adding the vaccine was safe for most and none should engage in spreading rumours without having proper knowledge about it.
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