7 Siblings Who Lost Parents To Covid Yet To Get Help Under Delhi Scheme

On Monday, the Delhi High Court said it would be unfair to expect children who lost their parents to procure certificates and documents.

Having lost both their parents during the second Covid wave, Devika, 23, and Santoshi, 21, now guardians to four minor sisters and a four-year-old brother, are yet to get help under Delhi government's scheme for children who lost one or both parents to the pandemic. Devika, a BEd student, says their father worked as a priest for a local temple and their mother was a homemaker. Recounting their ordeal during the second wave of Covid infections that made people scramble for hospital beds and oxygen cylinders, she said her parents had to be taken to Punjab and Haryana because no beds were available in Delhi. "Our mother got infected with Covid on April 26. We took her to several hospitals but there were no beds available. Her oxygen level dipped to 30. I bought an oxygen cylinder, but it did not last for even 15 minutes," she said.