Heart-wrenching plea by COVID-19 patient’s son [WATCH]
A gut-wrenching video has surfaced on the Internet, which showed a man from Maharashtra’s Chandrapur is pleading for a hospital bed for his father who has been suffering from COVID-19.
In the video, he can be heard saying, “Give him a hospital bed, or just kill him with an injection,” the COVID-19 patient’s son said.
According to a news report, a man named Sagar Kishore Naharshetivar has been looking for a hospital bed for his father since Tuesday afternoon.
The clip shows the father of the man lying in an ambulance outside a hospital, Naharshetivar says, “Either you make a bed available for him, or you kill him with an injection. I cannot take him home like this and you have no beds available.” He also said that the oxygen level is also running out.
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24 घंटे चक्कर लगाए, कहीं बेड नहीं!
— Puja Bharadwaj (@Pbndtv) April 14, 2021
बुज़ुर्ग मरीज़ के बेटे की गुहार, ‘या बेड दो या इंजेक्शन देकर मार दो!’
महाराष्ट्र के चंद्रपुर का हाल. pic.twitter.com/ZzxhlnzdZL
According to NDTV reports, Naharshetivar made several rounds of hospitals in Maharashtra and Telangana within 24 hours but all in vain.
“First I went to the Warora hospital, then the one in Chandrapur. Then we went to private hospitals as there were no beds,” NDTV quoted him as saying.
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Later, he also took his father to Telangana at around 1:30 m in the night and reached there by 3 am, but couldn’t find any beds there also. Once again, he brought his father back to Maharashtra and had been waiting outside the hospital for a bed.
In the wake of a spike in COVID-19 cases in Maharashtra, patients have been struggling to find beds, ventilators, oxygen, and medication.
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Earlier, Maha Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has asked for the army’s help to tackle the shortage of oxygen and medicine supply.
On Tuesday, Thackeray announced a series of lockdown-like restrictions amid the surge in COVID-19 cases in the state. For the next 15 days, the Maha govt suspended essential travel and services. Shopping centres, malls, film shoots, beaches will be shut.
On Wednesday, Maharashtra reported 58,952 new COVID-19 cases and 278 deaths have been reported in 24 hours.
First published: 15 April 2021, 14:03 IST