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Monday, September 17, 2018

The Economist: a Nurse, an Obituary - Lini RIP

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
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SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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Lini



Many Keralans work in the Gulf.

More lucrative than staying at home.

Dream of Gulf as a magical place.

Proud pictures taken outside the house.

Study

Motivation
Ambition
Love

Lini - died of the Nipah Virus
(fatal in 70% of cases)
May 21st 2018, aged 28

Night shift
Patient admitted: Mohamed Sadiq from Changaroth Panchayat
Fever, breathing difficulty
Fluids, paracetamol, change of clothes,
sit with all night long
The patient died after a few days

 Travel by bus to work from Chempanoda, slow but beautiful journey across rivers, areca-nut and rubber trees, past wooded hills. The Western Ghats tower to the east, catch the evening sun.

Bats - infected water, or the mangoes nearby.

Lini was studying to improve her knowledge ...
Puthussery
(family)


Lini --------Sajeesh
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Rithul (5 yrs)       Sidharth (2 yrs)

Sajeesh, away 5 yrs Bahrain working as an accountant
Daily phone calls, returned a few times a year
Able to afford 1 storey brick house

Social media - rumours
Origin of infection?
to be eligible for a permanent government nursing job.

On contract to Perambra Taluk hospital
Upgraded from a community health centre 10 yrs ago
Still short of doctors and specialists
Difficult cases still go to Kozhikode 50km away

Lini worked as a daily-wage nurse - flexible hours.

Place not quite paradise as farmers at times gathered to protest when their land was misclassified as protected forest and claims to ownership were rebuffed.

Husband tried to get a family visa, but
Lini wanted a nursing job in Gulf first.
(She loved her work too much)


Obituary, Lini Puthussery, The Economist, June 2nd, 2018, 427, 9094, p.86.