{"id":12346,"date":"2021-06-10T08:15:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T02:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nerising.in\/?p=12346"},"modified":"2021-06-10T08:15:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T02:45:56","slug":"no-one-offered-help-assamese-woman-carried-covid-positive-father-in-law-on-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northeastrising.in\/test\/no-one-offered-help-assamese-woman-carried-covid-positive-father-in-law-on-back\/","title":{"rendered":"‘No one offered help\u2019: Assamese woman carried Covid positive father-in-law on back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guwahati, June 10:\u00a0<\/strong>24-year-old Niharika Das was celebrated on Twitter when a photo of her carrying her Covid positive father-in-law on her back went viral. However, Niharika Das is from Nagaon\u2019s Raha and says that she hopes no one should go through what she did.<\/p>\n

On June 2, Niharika\u2019s 75-year-old father-in-law, Thuleshwar Das, a betel nut seller in Bhatigaon<\/a><\/span><\/span> village in Raha, started showing symptoms of Covid-19. Niharika then arranged an auto-rickshaw to take them to the nearest community health centre in Raha town 2 km away. But all her effort couldn\u2019t save her father-in-law.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut my father-in-law was too weak to even stand up. My husband was away at work in Siliguri, so I had no choice but to carry him on my back and take him to the vehicle parked at a distance,\u201d<\/strong> said Niharika, who has a six-year-old son. She said that the road leading to her house was not motorable, so the auto could not reach their doorstep.<\/p>\n

After Thuleshwar tested positive at the community health centre, the authorities told them that he had to be taken to a Covid hospital 21 km away in Nagaon since his condition was serious.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we had to call for another private vehicle. There was no ambulance or stretcher, so I had to carry him to the car again. People stared, kept a wide berth from us, but no one offered to help,\u201d<\/strong> she said, \u201cMy father-in-law was almost unconscious and it took me a lot of strength \u2014 physically and mentally to carry him.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

That is when unknown to her, someone clicked the duo \u2014 Niharika in a pink mekhela sador, her father-in-law on her back. The photograph has been doing rounds on social media since last week.<\/p>\n

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In an amazing display of women-power today, Niharika Das, a young woman from Raha, carried her COVID positive father-in-law, Thuleshwar Das, on her back while taking him to the hospital. However, she too tested positive later.
I wish this inspiration of a woman a speedy recovery. pic.twitter.com\/pQi6sNzG0I<\/a><\/p>\n

— Aimee Baruah (@AimeeBaruah) June 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n