COVID-19 fear let society abandoned 5-yr-old on parking space

A five-year-old girl was abondoned by the society after her parents tested positive fir COVID-19 in Gujarat's Ahmedabad, even after the report of the girl has come negative.

Ahmedabad: Even as the world is under the grip of fear with over seven lakh people testing positive for coronavirus and as many as 73 positive cases reported from Gujarat, yet people are so much paranoid that they are not willing to accept a person despite having been tested negative.

Here is a case of both mother and father testing positive for coronavirus while their five-year-old daughter’s report has come negative, yet none of her relatives in Ahmedabad was willing to provide shelter to her and the police and the hospital staff were compelled to look after her overnight.

The five-year-old girl was kept at the parking space of a housing colony when the hospital staff took pity on her and brought her to the safe zone of the SVP hospital. The doctors, deputy municipal commissioner Dr. Om Prakash and the inspector of the Ellisbridge police station are now trying to persuade her relatives to take the charge of the girl.

A resident of the SP Ring Road, who owns a private company, was detected as a positive case of coronavirus three days ago. Thereafter, his wife also tested positive while their five-year-old daughter’s report came negative. This made the parents anxious as to who would now take care of their child.

They then requested their friend, who resides in Canada but hails from Ahmedabad, to give shelter to the child at his parent’s house. While the friend’s parents agreed to take care of the child, other members of the housing society opposed the move despite fervent plea.

“She is a small child whose mother and father are both in the hospital, so she needs the support of a family,” they pleaded but the members of the society did not budge.

Thereafter, the police and officials of the municipal corporation came to the child’s rescue in response to a Tweet of the friend in Canada appealing to the civil and police officials to intervene and help the child. The state is under lockdown. Late night, deputy municipal commissioner Dr. Om Prakash responded to the Tweet and assured the family friend that he would help take care of the child.

Another doctor of the SVP hospital too offered to keep the child at his home. The child’s uncle, who resides in Kutch, would be brought to Ahmedabad with the help of the police.