*VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM KOKILABEN HOSPITAL MUMBAI*
*Message forwarded by Doctor Tushar Motiwala, Trustee of Kokilaben Ambani Hospital :
Despite all the requests and warnings , We continue to see our people from Apartments 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 any body being sick in our neighbourhood .
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 super human and it won’t affect you or your family .
Please be responsible citizens and make it worth while 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* 🙏🏻
*THIS MESSAGE IS FOR YOUR GOOD.DO NOT TREAT THIS AS A WHATSAPP FORWARD*
