Harish Chandra, CTO, Sarovar Hotels, Gurgaon expresses his admiration and gratitude to all healthcare professionals in India, and especially the staff of Synergy Hospital, Dehradun, who are currently helping his father recover from COVID-19
I would like to appreciate the phenomenal work being done by all healthcare staff during the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. Especially when the complete Indian medical system seems stressed out in a highly populated country like India.
In particular, I am speaking about Synergy Hospital, Dehradun, where my father is currently under treatment.
Doctors in India are working relentlessly to handle the current unprecedented second COVID wave to ensure that COVID patients are treated well. Yet, patients’ attendants and family member in hospitals starts complaining about negligence on part of medicos, mentioning that information about line of treatment and clinical data is not shared properly without realising the fact that one pulmonary doctor could be handling 100+ patients on a daily basis. To cure so much suffering all over the country is not an easy task.
The entire health system is overwhelmed with the current situation. It is under lot of pressure with approximately 21 lakh patients to deal with. Patience is the only thing needed and to accept reality.
This is the story of the miraculous on-going recovery of my 88 year-old-father, Shri Shiva Kumar Vaish, Retd. Jt. Director ONGC, a diabetes patient, from the grip of COVID. He was found to be a COVID suspect on May 2, after his granddaughter also tested COVID +ve.
His RT-PCR sample was taken on May 6 and he was confirmed COVID +ve on May 8. We consulted Dr Preet Vasan, head medical services, ONGC Dehradun. He started his COVID treatment at home on May 5 when his oxygen saturation was alright.
Somehow we were lucky to arrange oxygen cylinders and oxygen concentrators with the help of volunteers at Dehradun on May 10, when medical support in India was in acute shortage. Shubham Kapruwan, Taresh Sharma and Rajeev Sachar of Uttarakhand Punjabi Mahasabha, all COVID support volunteers, went out of their way to help us. I got their details from my ex colleague Shshank Pundir, who guided me immediately during the crisis.
With the help of Dr Vasan, we admitted my father in ONGC Hospital on May 13 midnight after his oxygen level started dropping below 80. Dr Vasan declared my father critical after checking clinical reports with CRP value 183+ on May 15. He gave us the option to shift my father to Vibhuti Hospital for ICU care on a temporary basis till an ICU bed was available in any premium hospital at Dehradun.
All my efforts were in vain despite my best efforts to find a single ICU bed in any of premium hospitals in Dehradun from May 13- 18. Finally my family friend Amit Sahai Mathur helped me, by flashing my father’s ICU bed requirement in various WhatsApp groups. Abhinav Thapar, Ajit Negi and Vijaypal Rawat and Shubham Kapruwan from ‘Covid Help Centre UK, a WhatsApp group’ came forward to help us in arranging an ICU bed at Synergy Hospital Dehradun on May 18.
The CT scan of my father was done before admission at Synergy Hospital, Dehradun on May 18. The results of the HR-CTC scan were very alarming with value of 23/25. From the bottom of my heart, I would like to thank and appreciate Dr Lav Kush Chaudhary, pulmonologist, MD (Pulmonary Medicine) Synergy Hospital, Dehradun for taking best care of my critically infected father. With his extraordinary efforts, most COVID marker reports of my father have slowly started sliding from the dangerous mark towards the normal range.
MD & COO of Synergy Hospital Kamal Kant Garg was also very supportive at all times.
Some people from abroad are talking ill about India’s medical services. But I would prefer to end on a positive note that it is to the credit of the Government of India that they have vaccinated more than 220 million Indians so far.
I would also like to convey my special vote of thanks to Ajay Bakaya MD, Sarovar Hotels for his consistent support, EC members of CIO Klub Delhi-NCR Chapter (of which I am also an executive member); my classmates – Dr Anoop Kaushal, Anoop Mittal, Tarun Karanwal and my family members – Satish Kumar, Prerna Singhal and Vaibhav Garg. Their timely guidance and relentless support enabled us to overcome all the hurdles.
By God’s grace today my father is getting discharged from Synergy Hospital Dehradun.
I pray to God that we all emerge out of this current situation stronger and with good health.
While things have hit the ‘pause’ mode, our faith in humanity and almighty shall surely pull out of this unprecedented situation. All’s well that ends well
Jai Hind.
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