The second wave of Covid-19 has wreaked havoc in India asit led to the acute shortage of medical oxygen, ICU beds as an unprecedentednumber of infection cases were coming up.
We all have come across various SOS posts on social mediahandles to either save our friends/relatives' lives or for someone else’s. Amidstall this, there was news that Covid victim themselves are putting up requestson social media handles so they can get the medical treatment.
Some of them might have been able to get it but, otherssuffered their fate. Similar heart-wrenching news has erupted from Delhi wherea Jamia Professor lost the battle against Covid.
Nabila Sadiq (38), a professor at Delhi’s Jamia MilliaIslamia University died of coronavirus on Monday night. In need of an ICU bed, theprofessor herself took to Twitter to put SOS on May 4.
Her micro-blogging site timeline had kept a record of hertragic journey of finding appropriate ICU bed leads as she desperately sought medical attention.
Bruised by Covid threat, she had tweeted frequently toshare her grief. She has even put tweets after losing acquaintances, known,etc.
“Pray the health improves by tomorrow. Thankfully feverhas reduced much. Just this throat,” Sadiq tweeted on April 24.
Jamia Professor’s timeline reveals that her family alsocontracted the contagious infection. Her May 1 tweet read, “Pray for me andparents please. We sail through.”
Saddened by the reality, the other day she wrote, “At this rate no one willstay alive in Delhi at least.”
After her health deteriorated on May 4, she put SOS whichread, “Any ICU bed leads? For myself.”
However, after a few hours of her tweet,she replied “got it,” and that was her last tweet.
Before getting admitted to the hospital, she was turnedaway by three facilities. Her father Mohammad Sadiq, 86, is distressed afterthis virus claimed the life of his wife and daughter within 10 days. The oldman now just gazes at the pictures, of his wife Nuzhat and daughter Nabila hungon the wall.
Sadiq’s father a former Jamia professor says, “I am a walking corpse.”
“When my wife died I thought I have my daughter. Now all I have are memories,”he added.
Waqar, a 38-year-old professor’s student reiterated, “Whenher mother succumbed to Covid on May 7, we did not inform her.”
He further added, “ We called every hospital in Delhi-NCRto get an oxygen bed. Her friends helped us get a bed at Fortis Hospital inFaridabad. However, her oxygen level s dropped to 32 percent. After a CT scan,the doctor said her lungs were damaged.”
Sharing his grief on her mentor’s death Waqar said, “Itfeels like we lost our mother.