<p>While scores of marriages in Kerala are being postponed in view of COVID-19, the postponement of the marriage of a 23-year-old girl hailing from North Kerala stands apart as she is a doctor on duty in COVID-19 isolation wards.</p>.<p>Dr Shifa Mohammed, who is a house surgeon at the Pariyaram Medical College and Hospital in Kannur, was scheduled to tie the nuptial knot on March 29 with Anus Muhammed, a Dubai-based businessman. Shifa was working in the COVID-19 isolation ward in the medical college hospital.</p>.<p>Both families had no second thought in postponing the marriage and incidentally on the day scheduled for her marriage also she was on duty in the COVID-19 ward.</p>.<p>Shifa's comment about her marriage being postponed was that she did not do anything great considering the sufferings faced by scores of people across the world owing to COVID-19. He father Mukkam Muhammed, a local politician, said that since his daughter was involved in the fight against COVID-19, there were no plans of going ahead with the marriage even as a low-key affair.</p>.<p>A family in Kollam in Kerala is keeping its fingers crossed as the marriage of their daughter, who is a junior doctor, is scheduled for the end of the month. "We are unable to take a decision on whether to postpone the marriage or not so far as the situation is not clear yet," said a close relative of the bride.</p>.<p>Kerala Government Medical Officers Association State President Dr Joseph Chacko said that the personal lives of doctors have been shattered by COVID-19. Some of the doctors are even virtually staying in the hospitals itself these days. The inadequate number of safety gadgets like three-layer masks are also posing health risks to doctors.</p>
<p>While scores of marriages in Kerala are being postponed in view of COVID-19, the postponement of the marriage of a 23-year-old girl hailing from North Kerala stands apart as she is a doctor on duty in COVID-19 isolation wards.</p>.<p>Dr Shifa Mohammed, who is a house surgeon at the Pariyaram Medical College and Hospital in Kannur, was scheduled to tie the nuptial knot on March 29 with Anus Muhammed, a Dubai-based businessman. Shifa was working in the COVID-19 isolation ward in the medical college hospital.</p>.<p>Both families had no second thought in postponing the marriage and incidentally on the day scheduled for her marriage also she was on duty in the COVID-19 ward.</p>.<p>Shifa's comment about her marriage being postponed was that she did not do anything great considering the sufferings faced by scores of people across the world owing to COVID-19. He father Mukkam Muhammed, a local politician, said that since his daughter was involved in the fight against COVID-19, there were no plans of going ahead with the marriage even as a low-key affair.</p>.<p>A family in Kollam in Kerala is keeping its fingers crossed as the marriage of their daughter, who is a junior doctor, is scheduled for the end of the month. "We are unable to take a decision on whether to postpone the marriage or not so far as the situation is not clear yet," said a close relative of the bride.</p>.<p>Kerala Government Medical Officers Association State President Dr Joseph Chacko said that the personal lives of doctors have been shattered by COVID-19. Some of the doctors are even virtually staying in the hospitals itself these days. The inadequate number of safety gadgets like three-layer masks are also posing health risks to doctors.</p>