Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh): A 38-year-old assistant professor of Jamia Millia Islamia University, seeking an ICU bed for herself on Twitter, succumbed to death due to Covid-19.
According to the sources, Dr. Nabila Sadiq, a Ph.D. scholar from JNU had been suffering from Covid-19 for the past several days, which had left her depressed.
Ten days before Nabila's death, her mother had also died of Covid-related complications. Her father was also hospitalized for Covid but was eventually discharged and is under self-isolation.
Nabila was seeking an ICU bed for herself on Twitter, among her last tweets, on May 2, was: “At this rate, no one will stay alive in Delhi at least.”
Laraib Neyazi, an MA student from Jamia said, "When I found out about Nabila's health, I rushed to her house along with some other friends. We started searching for a bed for her, we found one at Al-Shifa Hospital in Okhla, where she was already admitted in the initial days of infection, but her condition did not improve and she was shifted to Fortis Hospital in Faridabad."
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"Meanwhile, we rushed her mother to Sanjay Gandhi Hospital but she passed away. We didn’t tell Nabila because she was critical", he added.
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Now, no one is left in Nabila's family except her father, and a brother, who lives in America.
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