New Delhi|HL
The first patient from Delhi of COVID 19 has recovered and is currently under a 14-day precautionary quarantine at his Delhi residence.
While recalling his experience at the isolation ward at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital a 45-year-old hoped it will encourage others to come forward if they have symptoms. He also urged people to accurately report their travel histories.
Praising the facilities at Delhi’s Safdarjung hospital where he was being treated for the last two weeks, he said, “There is no need to be scared. It is just like normal flu. If a healthy person reaches the doctor, our health system is well-equipped, one of the best in the world. Isolation ward is not like a two-by-two cell without sunlight.”
I returned from Europe on February 25 and I had fever the next day. I went to a doctor who told me it was a throat infection. He gave me medicine for three days. I recovered on 28th but I again had fever on 29th so I went to the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital. On March 1st I tested positive,” he said.
Really, it was difficult only till the time they had not told me I was positive. But when a team of doctors came to see me at Safdarjung the next day where I had been shifted, they made me so comfortable saying ‘it is curable, you are a healthy person and it is just cold and cough and it would just go. It just takes a little more time than the usual cold and cough’,” he said.
The patient also access of phone calls and he also did video-calls to his family.
