Covid Patient On Lung Support Machine For 2nd Month. It Costs 1.5 Lakh A Day
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Jitpal went to school in Dehradun, Kolkata, UK and the US and has a wide circle of friends who have chipped in generously.
Covid has not just taken lives, it has devastated thousands of families financially as they struggled to pay for medical help for relatives hit by the virus. In Kolkata, 30-year-old Jitpal Singha has been in a hospital on ECMO -- a life support machine that costs one and a half lakh rupees a day -- for more than a month. Doctors have just told his family he needs to stay on that machine for another 30 days. Savings exhausted, the family is struggling to pay for the treatment. Alpana Singha, his mother, is not even thinking about what could lie ahead. She is only thinking of his goodbye when she was leaving the hospital after meeting him briefly at the ICU. "He can't speak as he has all these pipes in his throat. But as I was leaving, he indicated I should take a photo of him. And he made a victory sign," Ms Singha said. "He asks me every time I see him, how are you Maa? I say I am well, but you have to get well soon," she said. "And every day he asks, when am I coming home Ma?"More Related News