There is increasing awareness now of the impact of COVID on the mental wellbeing of people who have directly or indirectly been affected by the pandemic. In this situation, being of Indian origin has proved even more difficult as friends, families and neighbours back home are being hit by this invisible enemy – some seriously ill, fighting for life and some have been defeated.

But I am an optimist. At the end of the day, I believe this will pass. I am fortunate that as doctors we have resilience training – it is a pretty much constant “on-the job training” and this helps no end.