Noida: Woman who touched CMO’s feet to get Remdesivir loses 24-year-old son

NOIDA: One of the women who was captured on camera touching the feet of the Gautam Budh Nagar chief medical officer on Tuesday, has lost her only son aged 24 for whom she had been pleading for a Remdesivir injection.
The youth, who worked at a private company, died almost an hour after the video went viral. Vikas’s family said while they thought doctors are God, they have seen a different side of the health system and lost all faith in it.

TOI reported on Tuesday about a video in which a group of women family members of Covid patients could be seen touching the CMO’s feet pleading for the Remdesivir injection.
Rinku Devi, a resident of Khora, was one of them. She had come to plead for the injection for his son Vikas who had been admitted to Shivalik hospital in Sector 51.
Vikas’s maternal aunt Reena Devi said that she had first gone to the CMO office to ask for the injection for her nephew. “We begged and cried but to no avail. I had told the CMO that if I don’t get the injection, I will come again. I was told that if I come again, I would be put in jail,” she said.
After that, Reena’s sister Rinku too went to the CMO office to plead for the injection. However, around 4.30pm, Rinku’s son died at Shivalik hospital.
“He complained of chest pain on Friday suddenly and we took him to Shivalik hospital on Saturday morning. He was fine on Sunday but on Monday, his condition started deteriorating again. He was prescribed Remdesivir but we could not get it despite all efforts,” Reena said.
Reena said that they had thought doctors were God but the experience had shattered them. “My sister has lost her only son. Vikas was the only brother to two sisters. He could have been saved but we got no help from anywhere,” she said.