"My Husband, Mother Died Without Treatment Within An Hour Of Each Other": Ex-Doordarshan Director

Both were declared Covid positive after their death in a Malviya Nagar government hospital on April 27, Archana Datta said on Tuesday while recounting her trauma in a Twitter post.

Former Doordarshan director general Archana Datta lost her mother and husband to COVID-19 in the span of an hour after a desperate scramble to get them admitted to hospital in time to stem their falling oxygen levels failed. Many people like me perhaps thought that it couldn't happen to them! But, it did happen! My mother and husband, both, died without any treatment. We failed to have access to all top notch Delhi hospitals we used to visit! Yes, after death they declared COVID positive. Both were declared Covid positive after their death in a Malviya Nagar government hospital on April 27, Ms Datta said on Tuesday while recounting her trauma in a Twitter post. "Many people like me perhaps thought that it couldn't happen to them! But it did happen! My mother and husband, both, died without any treatment. We failed to have access to all top-notch Delhi hospitals we used to visit! Yes, after death they declared COVID positive," Ms Datta, who was Rashtrapati Bhawan spokesperson when Pratibha Patil was president, said.