At 3.30 am on Thursday morning, her mother passed away at a hospital ICU after a week's battle with the virus. Six hours later, Dr Shilpa Patel, working at state-run SSG Hospital in Vadodara, was back in the saddle, to perform her duty. In another city, Dr Rahul Parmar cremated his 67-year-old mother and rushed back to the hospital where he works.