New Delhi: In a long-overdue gesture of recognition, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Saturday distributed financial aid to the families of health workers who lost their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. The initiative comes after years of pending applications for compensation.
Addressing the media, CM Gupta emphasized the tireless efforts of frontline workers during the crisis, saying, “These people’s applications had been pending for years. During the COVID-19 pandemic, when the entire world was in their homes, these individuals continued to work tirelessly to save lives. No sanitation worker, doctor, nurse took leave, no one refused, yet in such circumstances, the government did not give them their due; what was the previous government busy with that it didn’t remember for years that it had to give them money… I apologize to all these families, and today we have distributed the money that is their right.”
