With another young techie battling Covid-19 for over a month now, his wife has urged people for crowdfunding to foot the hospital bills. Ramesh Sahu (36), a resident of Bhanjanagar in Ganjam district, is currently admitted to a private hospital in Kolkata for lung ailment caused due to Covid.
His wife Smitha Vimalan Nair, with support of her sister-in-law (husband’s sister), arranged money to airlift him from Bhubaneswar to Kolkata as the patient needed ECMO support. She had spent almost Rs 40 lakh during the period before it. As the ECMO treatment is too expensive, she has made an appeal for donation through a fundraiser to save her husband. “He is the sole earner in my family. He is suffering from lung ailment due to Covid. He is currently admitted to the AMRI Hospitals, Kolkata and requires ECMO treatment for 21 days. The expensive treatment costs more than Rs 1 lakh per day. Please save my husband,” Smitha has appealed people through media.
Ramesh is working in Maharashtra. The couple has an eight-year-old daughter. Recently, Ramesh had visited his native place to spend holiday with family. He contracted the infection while nursing his father, who was infected with Covid. His father died on May 11 and his condition deteriorated a few days after his father’s demise. Anyone willing to support the family can donate through Google Pay at the Number +919768302663.