India with spread of mutant virus "Corona that attacked my mother is completely different"

India / New Delhi.

My 86-year-old mother was looking forward to celebrating my upcoming birthday with me.

However, he died after being infected with the new coronavirus.

A mother who has lived powerfully with eight of us siblings as adopted children.

Even though I didn't go out and took thorough disinfection measures ...

Testimony of a woman in her 40s who lost her mother in India, where the mutant virus raged.

Ms. Ema Ito (45), who lives in New Delhi, India, responded to the interview.

This May, my mother, Masue (86), died of the new coronavirus.

As a mother of eight adopted children

My mother is from Tokyo.

After working in Laos and Bangladesh with my father (Mr. 23, 86) who was teaching agriculture in developing countries, I moved to India in the 1970s.

My father and mother did not have children.

We adopted and raised eight children.

When I was three months old, I was welcomed from an orphanage in Bangladesh as my first child.

Ms. Ema Ito

"I think of my child, and every time my family's birthday is 10 times a year, my mom cooks a delicious, big and beautiful cake. Everyone was looking forward to it from the morning."

Rapid spread of mutant virus Confirmation of infection of more than 400,000 people every day

The new coronavirus has cast a shadow over the peaceful life of the family.

In India, a highly infectious mutant virus has spread rapidly since this spring.

In early May, more than 400,000 people were confirmed infected every day, and the situation became more serious.

I was staying at home ...

My father and mother stayed at home to prevent infection.

Stop the walk that was a daily routine.

I don't even go shopping.

We paid close attention to the items delivered by delivery, such as disinfecting them before picking them up.

However, when my mother started coughing at the end of April, I tested it and found that both my parents were infected on May 4.

At that time, the spread of infection was at its peak in New Delhi.

I couldn't find a vacant bed.

Still, two days later, I was finally able to be admitted to a hospital more than 100 kilometers away.

Ms. Ema Ito

"At first, I thought it would be more dangerous to go to the hospital, and even when I was fine, I sometimes had coughs, so I was resting at home. It has been "

" himself also painful "chest hurts" to say, to lean on a hospital in New Delhi on all bad. hospital as soon as I usually I was hit by ourselves I "Why?" "

Suddenly “medical oxygen runs out” from the hospital

Two days after admission.

The hospital suddenly told me that I would run out of medical oxygen.

I had no choice but to transfer to another hospital 115 km away, which we hurriedly searched for.

At this time, you will be involved in an unexpected situation.

On the way to the hospital where I was transferred, an ambulance carrying my mother collided with a truck.

It took a long time to handle the accident, and I was temporarily out of oxygen for medical use in the ambulance.

Ms. Ema Ito

"In the ambulance, my mom clung to her younger brother and said,'Help'. She wasn't the kind of person who clung to people, and it was very painful at that time. I think. ”

I continued to inhale using the spare oxygen I brought from

my

home.

But by the time I arrived at the hospital I was transferred to, my mother had already lost consciousness.

Died 9 days after infection. Cremation over videophone

My

mother said,

"I want to go back to my house when I recover

."

He died nine days after the infection was discovered.

Let's bake a cake and celebrate with everyone.

It was two days before my birthday, which I was looking forward to saying.

My mother was quietly cremated near the hospital.

Only my younger brother was able to witness the cremation as an infection control measure.

My dad and I could only see off over the videophone shot by my brother.

Ms. Ema Ito

"Since only my younger brother was present, I watched over the videophone for hours until it turned into ashes. Even though my mother had no chronic illness and lived according to the rules. Why was Corona attacked? Why couldn't I beat Corona? I can't overcome that feeling. "

"It's totally different from the corona that took last year."

Actually, I was infected with the new corona last summer.

But when I saw my deceased mother suffering, I felt a clear difference from myself at that time now that the mutant virus is spreading.

Ms. Ema Ito

"At my time, my fever went up to 37 degrees 5 minutes only once, but it went down immediately, and the pain in my body disappeared in a day. But this time, the corona that hit my mother was completely different, and I thought it was a completely different illness, and I think it would be better to change the name of the illness. "

On the other hand, my father, who was confirmed to be infected with my mother, was later hospitalized.

I managed to recover in about two weeks, but I couldn't see my mother off because of the ongoing treatment.

Ms. Ema Ito

"When my mother tried to be hospitalized, the hospital was full of people, but she said,'All the patients at that time weren't dead.' I was able to be hospitalized. I can't say anything about it. "In

two weeks, the new Corona spread to 11 family members and relatives and killed her mother.

I have no idea what the infection route is for my mother, and I feel scared of it.

Ms. Ema Ito

"Invisible, no appearance, no smell, no shadow. But it feels like it's coming in through a gap and attacking. It feels like poisonous gas."

"What we can do ourselves." .. can not be helped If yours is infected with the corona, which I think I did the whole anyway sooner is there is no way to say other than important to hit the hand "

(interview: reporter Hitomi Kaneko Chiba stations)