What We Did When Our Government Collapsed: My Father Saeed Naqviâs COVID Story
We have all experienced desperate times. You know what must be done. This moment was utterly different. Because we knew what had to be done. We just could not seem to do it.
Veteran journalist Saeed Naqvi after recovering from COVID-19. Photo: Farah Naqvi
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Daughter of veteran journalist Saeed Naqvi shares a first person account of their struggle against COVID-19 in the week that the pandemic hit its peak in Delhi.
As a child I remember being told my father was somewhere in a far-away land, reporting a story on the Al Fatah guerrillas. I was wonderstruck. I imagined him in the wild, with giant silverback gorillas, and thought he was so brave. But silverbacks were protective said a dog-eared national geographic at our local lending library. I think I slept easy. It took years before adulthood brought me to words like Palestine, and taught me the difference between guerrillas and
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World s first, hole in woman s intestine due to white fungus
A case of white fungus causing multifocal perforations in the food pipe, small bowel and large bowel has been reported at Delhi s Sir Gangaram Hospital. This is the first-of-its-kind case of white fungus reported in the world.
On May 13, a 49-year-old woman was admitted to the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital with complaints of severe abdominal pain, constipation and vomiting. Doctors treating her conducted a CT scan which revealed perforations in the lower end of the food pipe.Â
A team of surgeons then conducted an emergency surgery and fixed perforations. The woman, also a cancer patient, was on chemotherapy some time ago.Â