Charanjeet Sharma’s progressive oral cancer could have been treated had he got the required chemotherapy in time. Sonia, Charanjeet’s wife, broke down as she spoke to India Today TV about how the lockdown ruined her husband’s prospects of ever being able to add a few years to his already fading away life.
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Charanjeet Sharma’s progressive oral cancer could have been treated had he got the required chemotherapy in time. Sonia, Charanjeet’s wife, broke down as she spoke to India Today TV about how the lockdown ruined her husband’s prospects of ever being able to add a few years to his already fading away life.
Sonia says they ran from one hospital to another all of which were not performing surgeries on non-Covid patients with life-threatening health problems. She went to Safdarjung Hospital where they told her that they will do the tests but the case is too far gone and now there is no scope for surgery.
A private hospital is demanding Rs 4.5 lakh for the surgery of oral cancer. Sonia, who has left her job to tend to her dying husband, says with their son in college she cannot afford the private hospitals charges.
Charanjeet is in extreme pain and with no chemotherapy, the cancer is just progressing. Everywhere, the hospitals have just one thing to say that why didn’t they come to them earlier.
Sonia says the lockdown made things very difficult and the cancer that could have been reduced only increased during that time. Charanjeet says he no longer has any hope from the government and just wants to live a few days left in his life in peace.
