At a time when the death of a family member due to Covid had shattered us it was our belief in God that kept us motivated and helped in staying positive and come out of these testing times during Covid pandemic says Pardeep Bhatia a chemist shop owner in Vijay Nagar locality of Batala road in Amritsar. “I lost my brother Navdeep Bhatia a chief pharmacist at the District TB Hospital who was the first one to contract Covid in our family in August last year. After observing the symptoms when we saw his oxygen-level dipping my sister-in-law nephew and I took him to the hospital where his reports came out to be Covid-positive. We got him admitted to the hospital and got ourselves tested too. Later we found that we too were Covid positive and went into quarantine. At that time there was a great panic regarding Covid among people and unfortunately I also lost my brother to Covid” he said. “Those were very difficult times. We took every precaution advised by the doctors. When we recovered after 14 days and tested negative for Covid we performed the last rituals of my brother. The loss taught us lessons and we decided to help the society in every possible manner. We organised Covid awareness camps vaccination camps and provided medicines in government hospitals” said Bhatia. —(As told to PK Jaiswar)

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