From hosp room, Big B blogs about ‘mental struggles' of Covid patients

Mumbai: Actor Amitabh Bachchan, who is in hospital for Covid-19, has written about the “mental health struggles” of coronavirus patients who are placed in isolation as part of the treatment. In a blog posted late Saturday, Bachchan, who was admitted to Nanavati Hospital, Juhu, on July 11, wrote, “The mental state sparks from the stark reality that the Covid patient, put in hospitalised isolation, never gets to see another human for weeks.”

While doctors and nurses are around, their personal protection equipment (PPE) makes it difficult for patients to connect. “There are the nurses and the doctors on visit and medicine care... but they ever appear in PPE units... you never get to know who they are, what are their features, expressions because they are forever covered in the units for protection... all white beings about... almost robotic in their presence,” the 77-year-old superstar wrote.

The World Health Organisation and doctors have said the Covid pandemic could be followed by a pandemic of mental illness brought on by isolation and the fear of social, emotional and economic wellbeing.