Pune: 51-year-old patient recovers, returns home to cheers from residents in Dargah Vasahat area

The defence employee said his 75-year-old father was first detected with Covid-19. “After that 12 members of our family were quarantined. My 15-year-old nephew and I were detected with coronavirus and admitted to Khadki hospital,” he said.

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The man said his family went through a harrowing phase for the past 20 days or so. (Representational)

A 51-year-old defence employee, who was diagnosed with coronavirus, was discharged from Khadki Cantonment Board hospital on Sunday after his second report also came negative. His 15-year-old nephew was also discharged on Sunday.

When the duo, who belong to the Muslim community, reached home in Dargah Vasahat area, people welcomed them by clapping, cheering and video-graphing their return. “It was a big happy moment for us. Firstly, we have recovered and, secondly, the residents of Dargah Vasahat were very supportive. Everyone welcomed us,” he said. Local corporators, senior citizens and youngsters, all had assembled to welcome them.

The man said his family went through a harrowing phase for the past 20 days or so. “But during this time, people of Dargah Vasahat rallied around us and extended all possible help. They provided us vegetables, milk and helped us get grocery. They gave us moral support and stood by us. We are indebted to every resident in Dargah Vasahat area,” he said.

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The defence employee said his 75-year-old father was first detected with Covid-19. “After that 12 members of our family were quarantined. My 15-year-old nephew and I were detected with coronavirus and admitted to Khadki hospital,” he said.

The man said his father passed away on April 27. “We could not believe it. This is because on April 26, two hospitals gave two different reports. The Aundh hospital report said he had tested negative for Covid-19 but the Khadki hospital report said he was positive. My father’s throat swab was taken on April 25. Two different reports came on April 26. He passed away at a Pune hospital due to multi-organ failure,” he said.

Lamenting that none of his close family members could attend his father’s funeral, the man said, “We are three brothers but as our entire family was quarantined, none of us could attend the funeral. I wanted to be with my father always but in the end I was not with him.”

Thanking the medical staff at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Hospital run by the Khadki Cantonment Board, the man said, “We have recovered fully thanks mainly to the doctors, nurses and other medical staff of the hospital. We never thought we were at a hospital, it was more like home. They counselled us to keep the fear of coronavirus away. Our entire family would like to thank the people of Khadki, defence employees, local corporators, KCB CEO and the hospital staff for helping in our difficult times,” he said.

Manoj Dattatrye More

Manoj More has been working with the Indian Express since 1992. For the first 16 years, he worked on the desk, edited stories, made pages, wrote special stories and handled The Indian Express edition. In 31 years of his career, he has regularly written stories on a range of topics, primarily on civic issues like state of roads, choked drains, garbage problems, inadequate transport facilities and the like. He has also written aggressively on local gondaism. He has primarily written civic stories from Pimpri-Chinchwad, Khadki, Maval and some parts of Pune. He has also covered stories from Kolhapur, Satara, Solapur, Sangli, Ahmednagar and Latur. He has had maximum impact stories from Pimpri-Chinchwad industrial city which he has covered extensively for the last three decades. Manoj More has written over 20,000 stories. 10,000 of which are byline stories. Most of the stories pertain to civic issues and political ones. The biggest achievement of his career is getting a nearly two kilometre road done on Pune-Mumbai highway in Khadki in 2006. He wrote stories on the state of roads since 1997. In 10 years, nearly 200 two-wheeler riders had died in accidents due to the pathetic state of the road. The local cantonment board could not get the road redone as it lacked funds. The then PMC commissioner Pravin Pardeshi took the initiative, went out of his way and made the Khadki road by spending Rs 23 crore from JNNURM Funds. In the next 10 years after the road was made by the PMC, less than 10 citizens had died, effectively saving more than 100 lives. Manoj More's campaign against tree cutting on Pune-Mumbai highway in 1999 and Pune-Nashik highway in 2004 saved 2000 trees. During Covid, over 50 doctors were asked to pay Rs 30 lakh each for getting a job with PCMC. The PCMC administration alerted Manoj More who did a story on the subject, asking then corporators how much money they demanded....The story worked as doctors got the job without paying a single paisa. Manoj More has also covered the "Latur drought" situation in 2015 when a "Latur water train" created quite a buzz in Maharashtra. He also covered the Malin tragedy where over 150 villagers had died. Manoj More is on Facebook with 4.9k followers (Manoj More), on twitter manojmore91982 ... Read More

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