Are you taking your auxiliary staff for granted?

How has your routine changed since you are locked up? It’s been approximately 40 days and you have still not seen your clinic. Based on the scenario outside and not to mention the paranoia among the dentists, do you think it would be easy for us to get back on the horse? With the fear of a crumbling economy, the forecasts by these “gurus” about an upcoming recession are enough to raise the hair on our spine.

But among these underlying fears, did you realize that there are some people without whom you cannot start your practice and how often do we speak with them let alone your assistants and reception staff, these people are a different story. Here I am talking about your daily maid who cleans your clinic before you even enter the clinic, your garbage collector, your raddiwalla. These are a few people who leave your clinic sparkly clean and smell free. Imagine when the garbage collector misses out your home for one day the smell that fills up your house.

How many of you ever stopped and thanked these people genuinely. During the COVID -19 crisis. These are the people who are still working relentlessly day and night, collecting hospital waste, your home waste, and are still made to feel unwelcome in your home.

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Let us just go back and think once, as much as you are afraid to bring back your closed clinic to the same glory as before,some of them are scared that they might not even get their jobs back and will have no means to put food on the table.

We did put posts on social media thanking those people on labour’s day, but was that post even meaningful enough?

Don’t you think we are the more blessed people who are still safe in our homes thinking about our next plan of action for our business, jobs or families whereas them, they might be having sleepless nights thinking how they are going to save their homes from loss of money, from a disease which has no cure as of now and they are on a certain risk of infecting their near and dear ones.

Let us take a moment to thank them , because if not the backbone they still are a very vital organ of your practice and I am pretty sure that even if they take a day of absence you will not pick up the broom and mop and start cleaning your clinic.

A note to thank those who are left invisible.