Covid patient needs ₹1.5 lakh daily for treatment; family, friends expresses concern

​By a Staff Reporter:  A family in Kolkata continues to feel the financial and emotional burden of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) as one of its younger members remains on life support. To keep 30-year-old Jitpal Singha alive, they have had to pay ₹1.5 lakh every day for the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation or ECMO machine for the last one month, according source. Doctors have said that Singha needs to remain on the machine, which pumps and oxygenates his blood outside the body so that his heart and lungs can rest, for another 30 days. But his family is concerned about funds drying up. His mother, Alpana Singha, said that when she last met her son he showed her a victory sign. She said that her son keeps asking about returning home. "He can't speak as he has all these pipes in his throat. But as I was leaving, he indicated I should take a photo of him," she told in NEWS.