After Covid scare, cured patients leading normal life

Manav Mander

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, June 18

After testing positive for Covid-19, many patients have recovered and are back to leading normal life.

Deepak Rana from Amarpura lost his mother to Covid-19 on March 30. His mother was the first fatality from Ludhiana district. On April 9, Deepak also tested positive for the infection.

Though his mother died, Deepak recovered completely.

“Covid-19 changed our lives completely. We were happily living till our mother tested positive. Everything changed thereafter. I came back after recovering, but people in the locality stopped talking to us. We decided to shift to our aunt’s house in Shimlapuri,” said Deepak (23) who works with the Municipal Corporation.

Sharing details, he said, “Usually people recover within 14 days, but it took me 22 days. It depends upon person to person and their immunity. Now that I have fully recovered, I do not face any health-related issue and I have started going to work,” he said.

After testing positive, Deepak’s mother was first taken to Civil Hospital, and then shifted to Rajindra Hospital, Patiala, as a ventilator was not available at Civil Hospital.

“I hope ventilators are installed at Civil Hospital so that treatment can be started early and no time is wasted in travelling,” he said.

Ali Hassan (55) from Chowkiman tested positive on April 6 after attending a Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi. A dairy farmer by profession, he is leading a normal life after recovering from the infection.

“My life has become normal. I wake up at 4 am and milk my cows. My wife Sapora helps me in my chores. After that I supply milk to a dairy,” said Hassan.

The only grudge that Hassan holds is that the sarpanch of the village did not cooperate with him during the hour of need.

His 15-year-old nephew Rafiq, who had also tested positive, is also doing fine now.

Manjinder Singh, a farmer from a village near Maachiwara, tested positive on May 8 and has fully recovered now. “I was asymptotic throughout and never faced any difficulty. I am healthy now and not facing any health-related issue.”

Sitting at his farm, Manjinder is now taking care of his paddy plantation. “I was lucky enough to get workers in time for paddy plantation. It is keeping me busy,” he said.