Dr Javed Ali – who was a contractual doctor with Delhi government’s National Health Mission (NHM) – succumbed to Covid-19 at the AIIMS Trauma Centre on July 20, 2020.
He was working with a quarantine centre in South Delhi’s Chattarpur, the Radha Soami Covid care centre, and sero surveillance centre in Pushp Vihar March before contracting coronavirus in June.
He passed away after a three-week-long battle with the virus.
He is survived by his wife Dr Heena, and their two children, aged 6 and 12. Dr Heena told The Indian Express, “He was a dedicated doctor who did not take a single day off since March and was on Covid-19 duty throughout. He even worked on Eid.”
For the last 10 days, Dr Ali was on ventilator support. “My children and I didn’t even get to see him one last time. There is no provision for the families to say goodbye. My six-year-old son doesn’t understand death, and keeps saying ‘main Allah se dua karunga Papa ko ghar vaapis bhej de,”said Dr Heena, over the phone. She said Dr Ali had no comorbidities.
Dr Ali hailed from UP’s Chandausi, and did his MBBS at a state medical academy in Russia.
Dr Ali joined NHM in 2011 and was posted at a Delhi government dispensary in South Delhi’s Sangam Vihar before Covid-19 struck.