above dr rajneesh arora and dr poonam arora right dr nilansha rai kaushik and dr vishal kaushikdehradun dr nilansha rai kaushik moved to dehradun in february after her wedding the gynecologist had left behind all familiar faces in her native uttar pradesh hoping to start a new life with husband dr vishal kaushik a pediatrician at government doon medical college gdmc things didnt go as planned barely a month after the wedding she was assigned covid duty at gdmc in march and since then instead of being with her husband started staying in hotel roomsi am new to this city and workplace and started isolating soon after coming here video calls on whatsapp helped initially but i wasnt emotionally prepared for this situation there were days when i broke down my sleep cycle was badly disturbed and the medicines prescribed to me caused irritation headaches and anxiety she saidas per protocol doctors treating covid patients are required to attend duty for seven days and then go into isolation for 14 days for nilanshas husband who was also assigned covid duty the same month as her the routine continued for three months he was finally allowed to go home in july to meet his newlywed wife but tested positive within a month a week later nilansha tested positive tooi had got myself tested eight times between march and june as per protocol the worst came when i tested positive in august seven days after i had discovered i was pregnant the feeling still haunts me at night she saidgrappling with isolation and being away from family for long stretches are bigger problems for frontline workers than the disease itself according to data provided by the health department 85 healthcare workers doctors nurses and paramedical staff tested positive for the coronavirus at gdmc around 100 have been found positive at all india institute of medical sciences aiims rishikesh and over 40 doctors and nurses tested positive at sushila tiwari medical college haldwani apart from that around 200 healthcare workers tested positive at other government and private hospitals across uttrakhanddr rajneesh arora from the neurology department at aiims rishikesh and wife dr poonam arora also a doctor at aiims faced similar difficulties the couple parents to an eightyearold and a twoyearold had to undergo at least three to five institutional isolations the children were taken care of by their elderly grandmotherisolation was an unusual experience of being alone it was certainly different from our hectic schedule which involves dealing and interacting with multiple patients on a regular basis plus we couldnt stand putting our family at risk because of our work however the feeling of not being able to be there when the kids needed us the most was frustrating said rajneesh aroraoutside hospitals police personnel bore the brunt of the highly infectious virus with nearly 1300 personnel having tested positive uttarakhand police department has been the most affected by covid19 while several policemen have now recovered from the infection and