A doctor finds her father as patient, in bad shape
Mitul Akter's father came to her chamber at Regent Hospital in the capital's Mirpur yesterday morning. He tested positive for coronavirus a few days ago.
Mitul has been away from home for the last two and a half months and has been living in the hospital to keep her family safe.
But her father got infected anyway.
"My home in Mirpur DOHS is not far. The rickshaw fare is just Tk 20. But I had not visited even on the Eid day," said Mitul. Who has been treating coronavirus patients.
Her father went to the hospital to show her the medical reports. She put on her mask when he entered the room.
As she looked at the CT Scan report of his lungs, her expression changed to one of horror.
"Will you please go outside the room and wait for me?" she told her father. Once her father was outside, she broke down.
"My father is not well. His lungs are filled with white spots. Those are the places where the lungs have become inflamed and filled with fluid. This is the reason why patients die from the coronavirus," she said.
As she fidgeted with her father's report, she grieved about not being able to spend the last two months with him. "When I left home, I said goodbye, knowing it might be the final.
"Coronavirus patients die here every day. We lost three patients today. It is never easy to lose patients… Maybe a few days later, my father might be one of them," she sobbed. There were 63 patients with coronavirus at the hospital yesterday.
"I have been trying to get my father admitted, but there are no cabins available. So he is home."
Stories of patients failing to get admitted to a facility are being reported across the country almost every day.
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