Davis Cup Skipper Rohit Rajpal Recovers From COVID-19, Recollects Journey To "Hell" And Back

Rohit Rajpal said those 11 days in the hospital taught him that the privileged people like him take 'simple pleasure of life' for granted.

Sucking air with enormous difficulty on the evening of May 2, India's Davis Cup captain Rohit Rajpal asked his brother to immediately assemble the whole family outside his room so that he could see his loved ones for one last time. Rajpal's younger brother Rahul, pleaded him, "don't give up". For 48 hours, he and his family had struggled, literally begged for a bed with oxygen but all their pleas were refused politely. Ever since his domestic help Birju died of the dreaded COVID-19 on April 28, Rajpal knew that he and his family were at risk since the person who died was in contact with them. On April 25, the 50-year-old got confirmation that he too has contracted the disease. He first got fever which was manageable but little did he know that in few days, he would be 'face to face' with death.