GRIEF AND MOURNING “ OVERLOOKED” ,,, a perspective for healthcare professionals As any other Indian, I joined in the ritual of lightning Diya, banging steel plates and attending almost all the broadcasts in which our Prime Minister addressed the nation. I did everything with the thought of showing and even feeling myself as a responsible citizen expressing gratitude and respect to frontline warriors in the times of Covid, but it did not help. Every day I come across the articles which mentioned the struggles faced by the frontline workers during the COVID-19. The list of struggles is too long to be mentioned here but the most ignored area was “Grief”, as experienced and managed by healthcare professionals Grief…. a spectrum : Grief is a universal and fundamental emotion experienced by people witnessing loss in their life. Often bereavement, grief, and mourning are used interchangeably. However, while bereavement is the fact of loss, grief is the emotional, cog...
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