Covid: PM gets emotional at interaction with health officials of Varanasi

PM Modi, while lauding the efforts of Varanasi's frontline workers in containing the spread of Covid in the city, lamented that despite their work, several lives had been lost

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged bringing medical services closer to COVID-19 patients, coming up with a new mantra - Jahan bimaar, wahin upchaar - at a video conference with doctors where he choked up while speaking of lives lost to the virus.

Though the attack of the pandemic has been checked to an extent with the joint efforts of all, it is not the time to feel satisfied, he told healthcare professionals and other frontline workers in his Varanasi constituency.

We have to fight a long battle, he added.

He said health services need to pay attention to the rural areas