Bangladeshi patients lost in Kovid upset India.

 

Bangladeshi patients lost in Kovid upset India.

Nahid Naser Trina, his two sisters, cousin, and mourning father are confused about how to return to the country with the body of their dead mother in Kovid and how they can bury their mother with dignity.

They have applied for a no-objection letter (NOC) from the Bangladesh High Commission in Delhi, but it did not reach them until Sunday afternoon. Only the mother's body was found in the clearance. The dead mother has been in the cold storage of the hospital since Friday.

"I can't explain our state of mind now," Trina, a student at Dhaka's North South University, told the BBC by telephone from Delhi.

Worried about returning.

Thus, her husband and children cannot accept the death of Gulshan Akter. But the whole family is more worried about returning to the country with the body and burying it than mourning.

“When can I go to the country? There is no plane, so how can I take my mother's body so far? How is it possible to stay in quarantine for 14 days after crossing the Benapole border? "Everyone is confused about where and how the mother will be buried," he said.

Not only Gulshan Akhter, but all the members of the family of seven were infected with Kovid one by one. Although the symptoms were gone, they did not get the results of the test till Sunday.

Gulshan Akhter went to Delhi on March 26 to replace his damaged kidney. She was accompanied by her husband, three daughters, and their cousins ​​and housemaid. They rented a house near the hospital in the Firozabad area on the outskirts of Delhi.

The cowardly situation in Delhi then began to take a terrible turn.

“My mother was on dialysis three days a week. We were concerned about the cowardly situation in the city. I was hearing the news of the oxygen crisis in the hospital. I was wondering what will happen to my mother's treatment now? ”Said, Trina.

Kovid to everyone in the family

The fears came true when Trina's father and two sisters were caught on April 21. His mother was caught two days later. After that everyone one by one.

Gulshan Akhter was taken to hospital on April 26 as his body was running out of oxygen. After three or four days he fainted and was taken to the ICU on a ventilator. Then on Friday doctors said he died of a heart attack.

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Gulshan Akhter (middle) with her husband and children in a rented house in Delhi before going to the hospital with Kovid. On the far left is Nahid Trina.

"We don't think there was any shortage of treatment, but my mother was under a lot of stress after she was taken to the hospital. He is kept in isolation. Could not speak Hindi or English. We were not seen. I don't think he could take that pressure. "

Gulshan Ara used to tell his family from time to time that after his death he should be buried at his village home in Narayanganj. "I don't know if we can do that," said Trina with a sigh.

Even after getting NOC, Bangladeshis stuck in India have to come through the Benapole land border. After entering, they have to stay in quarantine for 14 days. Trina, her siblings, and her father are terrified by that thought.

Many are trapped.

Many Bangladeshis who go to India for treatment are more or less in the same crisis as Trina's family.

Mohammad Kamruzzaman and his wife were similarly trapped while undergoing treatment in Chennai. He said the condition of his body made it impossible to land him, so he did not apply for NOC.

He is also worried about being detained for 14 days after entering the Benapole border. He did not return to Bangladesh but went from Chennai to Dubai and thought of staying there for some time. But flights from India to Dubai are also closed.

"I am locked in a hotel," he told the BBC by telephone from Chennai.

Mr Kamruzzaman said a Bangladeshi cancer patient had died at the hospital where he was being treated.

It is learned that many hospitals are discharging other patients in advance to empty the beds as the infection of covid is on the rise. As a result, thousands of such Bangladeshis are desperate to return to the country.

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There are 17 covid patients returning to India from the 25-bed hospital in Jessore

Hundreds of applications for NOC.

Apart from the High Commission in Delhi, hundreds of applications for NOC are being submitted to the Deputy High Commissions in Mumbai and Kolkata every day.

The highest number of applications is to the Deputy High Commission in Bangladesh in Kolkata. "Every day we read 300 to 500 applications here," an official told the BBC on condition of anonymity.

But quarantine facilities across the Benapole border are reportedly being considered when issuing NOCs. Priority is being given to those whose visas are about to expire or those who are dying and their relatives.

Even so, in the last 15 days since the border was closed, the Calcutta Deputy High Commission has reportedly issued clearance to about 3,000 Bangladeshis to return home.

However, the Kolkata official said that with some exceptions, it has been decided to stop issuing NOCs to Bangladeshis stranded from today (Sunday) till Eid.

Meanwhile, Jessore-based journalist Sajeed Rahman said 16 hotels in the city have been booked to keep people returning from India in quarantine. He said that due to lack of space in them, they were being taken to hotels in several nearby district towns.

Many are returning with the virus

On Saturday, the government's health department said that an Indian variant of the coronavirus had been identified in the bodies of the two on their return from India, raising concerns among the government.

Sajeed Rahman, a journalist from Jessore, says that 25 people who have returned from India in the last 15 days have tested positive. There are still 18 people admitted to that hospital.

Passengers from India are being brought to the hospital as soon as they see any symptoms and samples are being tested at the Genome Center of Jessore University of Science and Technology.