This Bollywood film actress turns volunteer nurse to treat coronavirus patients in Mumbai hospital

31 March 2020, 17:58 IST

Amid coronavirus outbreak across the nation, many Indian celebrities have extended their supports via PM CAREs and CM relief fund to fight COVID-19. But there is a celebrity who is volunteering as a nurse at an isolation ward for the treatment of coronavirus patients in a Mumbai hospital.

It’s Bollywood actress Shikha Malhotra, who once appeared in the Shah Rukh Khan film, is now working as a nurse in Mumbai Hospital.

She shared the information in a video that she posted on Instagram. “At a time like this, when everyone is locked, people like me who are degree holders, retired nurses or health professionals, don’t feel right being locked at home because it’s our duty to serve the country,” the actress wrote.

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#coronafighters Hindu Hriday Samrat Bala Saheb thakrey #hospital #isolationward from tomorrow onwards 27/03/20 On the behalf of my Bsc(hons) #nursing degree So Please Feel free to connect with me anytime at the time of any emergency occurs near you. Please Follow the Home quarantine keep you and your loved once safe and follow all the preventive measures according to the #who 🙏🏻 Please don’t take any chance Lot of people working day and night to keep the nation safe💐 #fightbacktogether #homequarentined @narendramodi @amitabhbachchan @anupampkher @zeenews @aajtak @abpnewstv @ddnews_official

A post shared by Shikha Malhotra (@shikhamalhotra_official) on Mar 26, 2020 at 11:49am PDT

In the video, she can be heard saying that she had applied to several different hospitals in Mumbai—from Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Nanavati Super Speciality Hospital, Dr. R N Cooper Municipal General Hospital to Medical Research Institute.

She revealed that finally she has been assigned in the isolation ward of Hindu Hruday Samrat Balasaheb Thackerey Trauma Centre in Mumbai’s Jogeshwari.

Shikha also requested her followers to abide to the request made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stay indoors during the lockdown.

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#coronafighters So here I am posting this Video on #lockdownday5 from #isolationward #covid19 Hindu Hriday Samrat Bala Saheb thakrey #hospital so that you can understand how serious it is😓😓Those who love your country love the nation post your #pics doing your favourite thing at home and Hashtag #meestayinghome and take the initiative to spread this around the country to save the nation🙏🏻🙏🏻do your bit m doing mine🇮🇳🙌🏻 @narendramodi @who @amitabhbachchan @akshaykumar @anupampkher

A post shared by Shikha Malhotra (@shikhamalhotra_official) on Mar 29, 2020 at 10:10am PDT

The actress also said that she was “satisfied” that the purpose for which she had studied medicine has come true.

Let us inform you that Malhotra is a graduate in B.Sc nursing from Delhi’s Vardhaman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital.

However, Malhotra has been posting several updates of her time as a nurse at the isolation ward on her social media account.

Besides becoming frontline worker during this pandemic, Shikha was recently starred in the Hindi-Rajasthani film Kaanchli Life in a Slough, alongside veteran actor Sanjay Mishra.

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