Poonam Solanki outside the Covid hospital at Civil Hospital campus
AHMEDABAD: Poonam Solanki, in her late sixties, was recently spotted outside the 1,200-bed Covid hospital at Civil Hospital campus. A phone in hand, she was on a video call with her son Mahendra, 30.
“How are you son? Do they give you good food? I'm praying for your fast recovery from corona,” the mother lovingly told the son on the other side of the call. She hung up after asking him to get well and come home soon. The call lasted for over five minutes.
Poonam could be mistaken for one of the hundreds of relatives talking to their patients fighting Covid-19 infection inside the hospital wards -- the only difference was that Poonam's son had succumbed to the virus six months ago.