UPDATED: May 22, 2021 14:12 IST
Dr Sudhanshu Co-founder, Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur (PURUSHOTTAM DIWAKAR)
Last year, in a precautionary Covid test, all of Dr Sudhanshu’s family members tested positive for the virus. Sudhanshu himself was not tested, and as he got busy caring for them, he overlooked his own symptoms. As a result, by the time he was diagnosed, his oxygen levels had fallen, requiring longer treatment and causing more side effects than might have been expected. “That taught me a lesson,” he says, “that the earlier one begins treatment, the better.” He says this led him, toward the end of the first wave, to consider how he could help people access treatment at the earliest.
UPDATED: May 22, 2021 14:57 IST
Kavita Srivastava at a Covid care centre in Jaipur (PURUSHOTTAM DIWAKAR)
During the lockdown last year, Kavita Srivastava, whose three decades of activism have won her the respect of the state government, was a leading voice demanding aid for migrant workers trapped in cities or forced to walk back to their home states. Since last month, she has found herself in a new role using her contacts in government to arrange for hospital beds, medicines and oxygen for those in need, as well as overseeing the distribution of water, food and other resources gathered by her organisation. In the process, she has been working with a dozen other NGOs across the state.
Nurse Takes Bribe To Arrange ICU Bed For Covid Patient In Jaipur, Arrested: Cops Nurse Takes Bribe To Arrange ICU Bed For Covid Patient In Jaipur, Arrested: Cops The complaint was verified and the accused was arrested while he was accepting the instalment of Rs 23,000, police said.
The accused had already taken Rs 95,000 from the complainant, the police said. (Representational)
Jaipur:
Rajasthan s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Saturday arrested a male nurse of a private hospital in Jaipur for taking a bribe for arranging an ICU bed for a COVID-19 patient at a government facility, an official statement said.
The accused has been identified as Ashok Kumar Gurjar, it said.