In a corner of Praveen Kumar’s home at Jhandeda village in #UttarPradesh’s #Saharanpur, frangipanis, hibiscus and jasmine are in full bloom. “They were planted by my younger brother, Ashwini,” said Praveen, 44, who works as a junior engineer in Muzaffarnagar. “This is all that remains of him.”
Ashwini, 32, was a repairman with the state’s electricity department in Saharanpur.
In Saharanpur, people who complain of fever and shortness of breath usually end up in crowded local clinics before going to a designated #Covid hospital. Ashwini was no exception. He was taken to Saksham Hospital first and then to one Dr AK Jain.
At PGI, Ashwini tested positive for coronavirus and was moved into a Covid ward on the afternoon of April 25. While delivering juice to the ward boy in the hospital, Praveen’s elder brother, Arvind, was breathless and started coughing. When his cough did not subside after four hours, Praveen decided to hospitalise him. He went to other hospitals in the city since he did not suspect Covid.
Arvind tested positive for covid in a rapid antigen test at midnight on April 27. Next morning, when Praveen woke up, he got two calls, one each from PGI and district hospitals: his brothers Ashwini and Arvind had succumbed to Covid at around 2 am.
Read more: https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/05/10/i-lost-two-brothers-in-one-night-how-a-useless-system-wrecked-a-saharanpur-engineers-family
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