Mayor back in nurse uniform for pep talk to students
Shiv Kumar
Tribune News Service
Mumbai, April 27
Handling a crisis
- Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar (57) had worked as a nurse for 10 years before joining politics full time
On Monday, she dressed up as a nurse to meet students roped in to work in Covid wards
AdvertisementThe students and their parents were reportedly apprehensive of contracting the virus
The Mayor persuaded them to take it as an opportunity to learn how to handle a crisis
Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar today donned a nurse’s uniform for a meeting with nursing students roped in to work in Covid wards.
Pednekar, who worked as a nurse with the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust Hospital (JNPT) at Uran, near Mumbai, before entering politics full-time, said she donned the uniform to persuade nursing students who were apprehensive about contracting the virus.
“Nursing students and their parents were worried about the young girls falling sick because of the virus. I told them that this was an opportunity to learn how to handle a crisis,” Pednekar told reporters at the hospital.
The Mayor visited the civic-run BYL Nair Hospital and the attached Topiwala National Medical College from where the final-year nursing students have been roped in for deployment in Covid-19 wards.
According to the Mayor, she had worked as a nurse for 10 years. She borrowed the nurse’s uniform from staffers of the BYL Nair Hospital, according to civic sources.
Pednekar, 57, had gone into quarantine earlier this month having interacted with several journalists who later tested positive for corona. The Mayor, however, had subsequently tested negative for the virus.
