Message from a Doctor in Shobha Apartments on Coronavirus

Despite all the requests and warnings, We continue to see our people from Sobha IP gather around during the evenings and make the most of their “stay at home “ situation. Kids continue to play in groups while parents are taking a break.

Please understand it’s very important to restrict movements currently, including morning and evening walks. And it’s very important to stay indoors and not in play areas or lawns

Many doctors including myself are working with sick people daily and are seeing how people are succumbing to illnesses very quickly during these times. I have seen many of my own colleagues being quarantined because they have treated patients suspected with COVID -19. One of the doctors hasn’t seen her 3-year-old toddler for nearly 4 days now.

Medical personnel who are treating these patients are working like soldiers putting their own lives and families at risk. It’s a shame that the rest of the community is ignoring the health hazard and having cricket matches in the lawn and late evening chat parties.

COVID 19 is no longer a problem that’s only in present some other part of the world. It’s here now, amongst us and spreading quickly.

Please stay away from each other as much as possible. We can not afford anybody to be sick in our neighborhood. The reason being that we have a large number of children and elderly people. Even moderately affected people may end up requiring ICU beds and we don’t have many in this area or in the city itself. Imagine not being able to find a suitable hospital bed with a sick child or an elderly parent.

The reason for all the worry about COVID is that even if 10 people in a group of 100 get affected and they keep moving around, they can infect the rest of the healthy 90 people in a matter of hours. Even if 10 of those hundred get very sick, we will run out of ICU beds in our vicinity.

One doesn’t have to be symptomatic to infect others, about 40-50% of the affected people are asymptomatic.

So please stop assuming that you are a superhuman and it won’t affect you or your family. Please be responsible citizens and make it worthwhile for the medical personnel to fight against this pandemic disease, who are putting ourselves and our families at higher risks ………and no doctors /nurses can’t work from home.

We will continue to fight for the community no matter what but please don’t make us feel like idiots by being irresponsible citizens and continue to ignore the messages to do social distancing 🙏🏻

Dr Seema
2020