Cancer patient, wife beat Covid

Tribune News Service

Kakrana (Rohtak), May 13

An elderly cancer patient of a Rohtak village has not only defeated Covid, but is also firm on conquering cancer as well.

His wife, who had also contracted Covid, has also recovered and returned home. The couple have become a source of inspiration for fellow villagers.

Ramphool (58), a resident of Kakrana village in Rohtak district, has been undergoing chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer at a Delhi-based hospital. Nearly three weeks ago, he was told to get himself tested for Covid and was found positive.

Subsequently, Ramphool’s wife Bimla (56) also tested positive for Covid and both of them were admitted to the isolation ward at the Rohtak Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS). Eventually, both of them defeated the disease, got discharged from the hospital and returned to their village.

Ramphool asserts that willpower is the only antidote to Covid — or any other disease.

“After completing my home-quarantine period, I will get my cancer-treatment resumed. But I will not go to Delhi now as it is suspected that I contracted Covid infection there. I will now get chemotherapy at Rohtak PGIMS,” says Ramphool.