Cost Of Covid: Families Face Financial Doom
Covid has not just taken lives, it has devastated thousands of families financially as they struggled to pay for medical help for relatives hit by the virus. In Kolkata, a 30-year-old youth has been in a hospital on ECMO -- a life support machine that costs one and a half lakh rupees a day. Doctors have just told his family he needs to stay on that machine for another 30 days. With savings gone, the family is in a big dilemma.
