Muhammad Asaduzzaman, a doctor treating Covid-19 patients, has nightmares that people are gasping for air and pleading to be saved. When someone touches your hand, begs for help to breathe and when that person dies before you, it s very difficult to keep your calm. It s extremely hard to sleep at night peacefully. It comes back to haunt you, he says.
An assistant professor and head of the department of critical care at the capital s Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship Hospital, the 42-year-old doctor has been providing care to coronavirus patients for a year now. But over the last few weeks, the conditions of many critical patients have deteriorated fast, leaving physicians like Asaduzzaman absolutely hapless.