231 succumbed to virus in a month, the highest so farOf lives lost & helpless kin

Naina Mishra

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 24

Covid-19 snuffed out 231 lives this month, the highest monthly toll since the pandemic hit the city last year.

Several Covid patients died because they reported late to hospitals after their oxygen levels dropped.

Amit Garg, a 36-year-old resident of Sector 40, who lost his mother to Covid-19, said: “My mother had fallen ill but we did not get a test conducted as the fever lasted only a day. After four days, my mother’s oxygen dropped to 63 suddenly. We rushed her to the PGI emergency at night, while my wife was taking care of my father at home. In the meantime, my father’s sugar level spiked arbitrarily and we rushed him to a private hospital. My mother was being intubated the next day and could not be saved. I did not tell my father as he was also hospitalised. Only five of our family cremated my mother and we grieved in silence.”

His father is currently undergoing Covid treatment at the private hospital.

A 38-year-old resident, Amandeep Garg, lost both his parents in two days last month. His parents were under home isolation after the Covid test. After 10 days of home isolation, both of them started complaining of difficulty in breathing. “My mother was an Alzheimer’s patient, so already immunocompromised. She could not

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