“I think she loved her mother more and left with her… leaving me alone here”, he said.
Dr Nabila Sadiq was very popular among students because of the help and assistance she used to provide them. Students said Dr Nabila was busy helping them with their thesis until April 20. Any ICU bed for me?
What’s more heart-breaking is the last few Tweets that Dr Nabila had posted on the social media site before her death. Among her last tweets, on May 2, was: “At this rate no one will stay alive in Delhi at least.”
This was the day when the National Capital had recorded 20,394 new cases and people were running hectare scatter for medical aid.
Jamia professor, who sent out Twitter SOS for oxygen bed, dies of COVID
Nabila Sadiq is the fifth serving professor from the varsity to have succumbed to the virus in the last one month.
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NEW DELHI: Days after she put out an SOS message on Twitter asking for an ICU bed for herself, Jamia Millia Islamia professor Nabila Sadiq lost her battle to coronavirus at the age of 38.
She is the fifth serving professor from the varsity to have succumbed to the virus in the last one month.
Sadiq had lost her mother Nuzhat to the virus on May 7 and is survived by her 85-year-old father Sadique, who is 80.
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She recently sought help finding ICU bed on Twitter
Her mother died of COVID only 10 days before her death
New Delhi: Days after sharing a post on Twitter seeking help to find herself an ICU bed in a hospital, Dr Nabila Sadiq, Assistant Professor at Jamia Millia Islamia university succumbed to COVID-19 at a Faridabad hospital on Monday (May 17) night.
The 38-year-old was a PhD scholar from JNU who continued to guide her students with their thesis until April 20.
“At this rate no one will stay alive in Delhi at least,” read one of her last tweets.
One of her students, Waqar, said they called every hospital in Delhi-NCR to get an oxygen bed.
. NEW DELHI For a doctor, it was another 18-hour day trying to rescue patients who could not be saved. For a crematorium official, it was one more procession of victims. For the family of a young academic, it was a time to mourn their second loss to the virus this month. India reported more than 4,500 deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday for the prior 24 hours, the highest single-day death toll in any country since the pandemic began and a grim marker of the scale of the outbreak ravaging this nation of 1.3 billion people. The previous high for daily fatalities in the pandemic, 4,400, occurred in the United States on Jan. 20, according to data from The Washington Post.