Corona: Know from the person who is in isolation, how it is to be isolated

Corona: Know from the person who is in isolation, how it is to be isolated

Corona Person who is in isolation

One, if you are asked to remain isolated in a room, fear of corona virus? Corona, a disease whose discussion and panic is everywhere.

From newspaper headlines to TV headlines and radio advertisements, covid-19 has been touted as a measure of avoidance and caution. One of these preventive measures is: quarantine

According to the Medicine Net website, quarantine in the language of medical science means: to keep someone apart for some time to prevent the spread of an infectious disease.

Since corona is also an infectious disease, people suffering from it or coming in contact with the victims are being kept separate. People coming to India from abroad are also being kept aside for about two weeks.

In some circumstances people are being asked to separate themselves from 'self-isolation'. But living alone is not so easy. Fear of disease and infection is likely to increase even more if left alone. But is the process of quarantine or separation as difficult as people feel?

To understand this, the BBC spoke to Professor Ashish Yadav, who has recently returned from Wuhan, China. Wuhan is said to be the center of corona infection. Ashish worked as an associate professor at Wuhan Textile University. His wife was in Wuhan doing her PhD in computer science.

After coming to India from Wuhan, Ashish and Neha were kept in the 'Self Isolation Center' of ITBP (Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force) in Chawla, Delhi. Ashish and Neha stayed in Quarantine from 27 February to 13 March at the center of Chawla. All 112 people staying at the center were sent on Saturday when they were found negative in the corona test.

Life in Quarantine: On February 27, this ITBP center brought 112 people, including 76 from India, 23 from Bangladesh, 6 from China, 2-3 from Myanmar and Maldives, 1-1 from South Africa, Madagascar and the US. . According to the Press Information Bureau, there were 8 families and 5 children in the camp.

Ashish says that he and his wife were given a room to live in this 5-floor camp. In the Quarantine Center, the routine of the people started around six and half past six in the morning.

After morning tea, breakfast was served to almost everyone at 8 o'clock and then in a short time a team of doctors would come and do a medical checkup of everyone. People were immediately taken to the hospital if they felt any problem.

Ashish explains, "Around 8 o'clock in the night, we used to gather in a large dining hall to eat. However there we had to maintain a certain distance from each other."
Mental stress and fear: Ashish explains that he and his wife were very scared for the first few days after their arrival from Wuhan. He explains, "Until some of our initial test reports were negative, we were very scared. Some people in the center were given sharing bathrooms and toilets, so they were more afraid. All the people in the camp After seeing each other, they kept thinking that the report of the front would not come positive. "

Ashish says that he used to spend the most time in the dining hall eating. They told that we were not allowed to eat in the room, so everyone gathered in the hall. Although everyone would sit there making a distance, but if anyone got a slight sneeze or cough, then everyone was nervous.

Ashish's wife Neha says that in the first few days she could not even sleep due to fear and nervousness. She says, "Many times, I and Ashish used to spend the whole night talking. The tension was so much that no one would feel like talking on the phone."

Ashish and Neha tell that a 23-year-old youth in the camp, whose blood pressure was very high, had to struggle a lot to get doctors to control it. However, there were also psychiatrists and psychiatrists in the camp who counseled people when needed.

It would have been difficult to cut the time: Ashish told that almost all the people were scared so there were problems like nervousness, tension and irritability. The good thing is that there were psychiatrists and psychologists there for us. We had to make only one call to call them and they used to come and talk to us, listen to us. "

Ashish and Neha say that if both of them were alone and not together then it is difficult for them to cut this time. However, now after spending a fixed period (about 14 days) in the camp, both have come to their village in Etah in Uttar Pradesh. As a precaution in the house, they have been asked to remain alone for 10-12 days.

Neha said that right now we are living in separate rooms, using separate washrooms and restrooms. We are neither going to market nor outside. Very rarely do we go around the people of our family. Ashish and Neha have been asked to contact the CMO of the district in case of any problem.

Do not make the quarantine hot: Both are feeling much better now and they say that people do not have to fear in the name of quarantine or isolation.

Ashish said, "Both of us can tell from our experience that if you prepare properly and make yourself mentally stronger, then there will be no problem in staying aloof. Loneliness and stress may dominate you initially. , But gradually it will be fixed. "

Ashish and Neha say that they have no intention of going back to Wuhan anymore. Ashish told that I have not yet resigned from Wuhan University. In the next few months, I will find a job in India and I will resign from Wuhan Textile University as soon as I get a job here. Neha will also pursue her research work from India itself.