'I was a proud father—and now I have become a beggar,' a man said when struggling to pay the medical bills for when his son was in the ICU.
When he asked his son's friends to set up the campaign on Ketto to raise funds, Sharma hadn't seen a paycheck in 18 months. Between April and June this year, 40 percent of the 4,500 COVID-19 campaigns on the site were for hospitalization costs, the company said.
In the northeastern city of Imphal, 2,400 kilometers away, Diana Khumanthem lost both her mother and sister to the virus in May. Another paper, by the Duke Global Health Institute and the Public Health Foundation of India, found costs of ICU hospitalization for COVID-19 are equivalent to nearly 16 months of work for a typical Indian day laborer or seven to 10 months for salaried or self-employed workers.
A public hospital treated Khumanthem's mother, but her sister Ranjita was admitted to a private one that cost $1,300 per day.
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