Several Bollywood celebrities, including Ayushmann Khurrana, Kajol, Dia Mirza and Madhuri Dixit, on Tuesday expressed their gratitude to the nursing community on International Nurses Day for working tirelessly amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Ayushmann said people should "salute" the nurses for being frontline warriors as he called them the "real heroes" of the battle against pandemic.
"We will be forever in debt to the nurses, the medical fraternity across India and the world for putting themselves on line and coming to work when they could also be staying safe with their families. I only want to say thank you to them and their families from the bottom of my heart," the actor said in a statement.
Kajol took to Twitter and said nurses as the heroes behind a mask, who are "saving the world in silence."
Dia said nurses have touched lives with their humanity and even during the pandemic, they continue to "dispense their duties with love, compassion and care."
Calling nurses the pillars of medical fraternity, actor Ananya Panday said they are the ones who stand by doctors and families "through some of the toughest times."