Ahmedabad: In the first wave of Covid-19 cases, when infection began to increase in a walled city, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation had decided to clean the area.
Kalpesh Patel, 50, a firefighter with the Navrangpura Fire Station, is part of sanitation operations.
He fell ill as soon as he had been lying in bed since April 30 last year.
The Union Ministry of Home Unity in 2012 sets a rule that the mandate that firewights are equipped with protective equipment and devices before they dare to extinguish the fire or handle chemicals.
The same as important is the welfare of firefighters after they are injured or injured while preventing the danger.
Health insurance, leave without payment, post trauma treatment is the basis.
Now Gujarat has a fire service directorate, the policy towards the welfare of firefighters must be the fact whether they are permanent or contracted.
Corporate administration wings Ahmedabad Municipal moved the proposal to consider Patel on April 30.
“In present, all the leave obtained and sick leave had run out and he was now leave without paying.
Considering that he fell ill while the administrative wing asked the committee to approve the disability leave until he returned to work,” said a senior AMC officer.
The proposal forwarded to the committee still said that he was too excited for sodium hypochlorite used for sanitation operations, and was hospitalized on April 30, 2020.
He had been lying in bed since then and struggled to survive.
“According to fellow firefighters, after sanitation operations in walled, they returned and Patel suddenly complained about giddiness and fell unconscious.
He was taken to the hospital where he was treated in the ICU when he entered the comma.” The doctors said the reason would be It becomes a coma possible that he is constantly exposed to sodium hypochlorite, “said fighter fighter.
Patel was in a coma for 40 days and was revived and even climbed to his legs, when he suffered a paralyzed attack.
He then suffered a thigh bone damage.
Since 30 April, he has been lying in bed and still has not yet stood up.
Over the past few months, Patel gets his speech again even though he can hardly speak three or four words together.
He can now recognize his wife and son.
He was recently taken to Funeral of his father.
AMC official said that according to his medical report, Kalpesh will still be six to eight months for KEM Bali to full fitness.
BJP Office-Bearer at AMC said that for such employees only the permanent committee and the General AMC General Council can provide sanctions for leave.
Such decisions were taken only on humanitarian land because there was no concrete policy for staff who fell ill in the task.
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Ahmedabad: Combat Corona, Fireman Entering a Coma
