A youth, who came all the way from Mumbai to see his terminally-ill father, failed to do so as he was lodged in a quarantine centre.
The statutory period of isolation didn’t allow him to see his father, who was then undergoing treatment in the District Headquarters Hospital.
While his father died on Thursday night in the DHH, he could see the body in the cremation ground only before the pyre was lit.
Amir Behera, the third son Damodar Behera (60) of Guhalia village under Baunsabania GP of Oupada block is serving in a private company in Mumbai.
His father while about 4 years ago was detected with cancer, Amir had got his father treated in the Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital Mumbai for three years.
After receiving treatment while Damodar returned to his native place recently, yet his health condition deteriorated due to the chronic ailments. Due to lockdown restrictions, while the family members couldn’t take him to Mumbai and the Acharya Harihar Cancer Institute, Cuttack, he was admitted in the DHH, Baleswar.
Amir had arrived from Mumbai on Tuesday by train. During the quarantine period, although he pleaded to the local Sarpanch to let him go to see his father, she didn’t allow him. Amir while seeing his father’s body in the cremation ground broke down lamenting he couldn’t see him alive in the last stage.