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Twinkle possibly caught the virus while driving patients to hospital or while at the hospitals or funeral grounds. “When an emergency hit our family, we could not get an ambulance in time,” said a wry Himanshu, fully conscious of the irony. “But our objective is to help people who need to immediately reach a hospital. The outbreak didn’t faze us, and Twinkle especially had zero apprehensions about driving corona infected people to hospitals.”
In the last four months, the Kalias helped over 350 patients. “Sometimes we even received phone calls requesting us to ferry bodies to crematoriums. Since these things take time, both of us spent many hours at hospitals and cremation areas, which left us prone to catching the infection,” revealed Himanshu.
This story is from the July 21, 2020 edition of The Times of India Delhi.
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