Tested +ve, Hyderabad boy isolates self on treetop to protect family

Tribune News Service
Hyderabad, May 17

Ramawat Shiva Naik, an 18-year-old engineering student from Hyderabad, spent 11 days on a tree to isolate himself after he tested Covid-19 positive.

Since he did not have enough space in his house for “self-isolation” and did not want to pass on the virus to his parents, he isolated himself on a treetop near his home at Kothanandikonda village in Telangana.

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Shiva was with his parents when he developed symptoms and got himself tested. Since colleges are closed, he could not return to his hostel.

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From a not so well-to-do family, he was financially helping his family by working as a porter at a paddy procurement centre where he picked up the infection. After he developed fever, he travelled to the primary health centre, 5 km away, to get himself tested and was found positive.

The doctors advised him home isolation. With a single washroom at home, isolation was not possible. He said since he had heard the virus dipped oxygen levels, the treetop was an obvious choice

He made his cot with bamboo sticks and ropes on a tree. His parents kept meals, water and other requirements in a bucket that he would pull up. Later, the authorities shifted him to an isolation centre.

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