SP Robin Kumar is a specialist in remedy (MBBS, MD) which has helped him reply to the choice of duty.
Guwahati:
A youthful IPS officer is worthwhile hearts in Assam by treating people in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic whereas donning the khaki uniform, attributable to his medical background.
Barpeta Superintendent of Police (SP) Robin Kumar is performing the dual duties of a corona warrior — a police officer and a well being care supplier — as a result of the district is witnessing a spike in COVID-19 situations.
SP Kumar, a 2013 batch IPS officer, is a specialist in remedy (MBBS, MD) which has helped him reply to the choice of duty and provide treatment to the needy in the midst of the continuing medical emergency.
Aside from heading the district’s police division, SP Kumar is presently working a 50-bedded Covid care centre with four ICUs in Barpeta Police Reserve for police personnel and their households and will also be planning to hold properly being camps for ladies and aged people.
“I uncover myself fortune to dedicate myself in every the roles of district police chief and a well being care supplier. It presents me immense satisfaction,” SP Kumar instructed PTI over phone.
The SP has moreover held a properly being camp for these police personnel who’re 50 years or above in Barpeta.
After changing into a member of Assam Police, SP Kumar, a neighborhood of Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, first organised a properly being check-up camp at Tezpur all through his earlier posting in Sonitpur district only a few years prior to now.
“When the pandemic struck, I took permission of Assam DGP Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta to open a Covid care centre for the police personnel in Barpeta. Now, we’re working the centre simply,” he talked about.
The Covid care centre has four ICUs, 32 widespread beds and 14 after care beds.
SP Kumar’s service earned laurels from completely completely different quarters.
Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal described the SP’s act as “good gesture of service to humanity”.
“An Assam Police warrior inside the truest sense. Good gesture of service to humanity by Barpeta SP Dr Robin Kumar, utilising his talents to help medical docs and healthcare workers inside the battle in the direction of COVID-19,” Mr Sonowal talked about.
The IPS Affiliation, a physique which represents the Indian Police Service officers all through the nation, talked about SP Kumar has set an occasion by foremost from the doorway.
“First Line Of Defence! Dr. Robin Kumar, SP, @Barpeta_Police, set an occasion by foremost from the doorway. Inside the nation”s battle in the direction of coronavirus, Dr. Kumar, MD (Medication), personally convened a properly being camp,” it tweeted.
SP Kumar’s IPS colleagues moreover appreciated his twin place of an SP and a well being care supplier after his pictures in full police uniform treating police personnel with a stethoscope went viral on social media.
Renuka Mishra, ADG in UP Police, tweeted: “So heartwarming to see. #GoodJobCop Good Job Doc. Thanks Robin”.
SP inside the Nationwide Investigation Firm, Sanjukta Parashar, tweeted: “Thanks Robin! May you shine way more inside the service!”
SP Kumar, who did his MBBS and MD from Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College in Meerut, talked about he had in no way anticipated such encouraging response from police fraternity and customary people.
As many as 76 police personnel in Barpeta had been contaminated by the coronavirus in last few months and SP Kumar personally took care of all people of them.
“Fortuitously all of them have recovered and returned to duties,” he talked about.
The SP talked about he has ensured that these police personnel who’ve problems with hypertension, diabetes or completely different properly being factors are given desk jobs moderately than self-discipline duties so that they are not uncovered to the virus.
The Barpeta police had moreover run a gaggle kitchen for poor and destitute for about 40 days when the countrywide lockdown was first launched in March.
Requested why he decided to search for the civil firms examination no matter being a specialist doctor, SP Kumar, who was a district topper at school 10 and 12 examinations and as well as obtained chosen for engineering sooner than he chosen to evaluation MBBS, talked about he contracted dengue in 2011 when he was working at Delhi’s GTB hospital after which developed curiosity in going into the protection making side of the governance.
“As a well being care supplier, we’re one part of the picture, that is therapeutic. What in regards to the prevention? As a civil servant I am performing every the roles,” he talked about.
