MySuru: LT COL (DR) Ashok Su, who served in several battlefields, including Rajouri and Poonch in a 12-year career with the Indian Army, against a different battle from the front line as he served in the Mysuru Covid-19 war room which played a role Important in the district war against a pandemic.
The recipient of the head of the Medal and Director General of staff notice, Medal Assam Rifles for leading services, Ashok felt a second wave of worse compared to the first.
Ashok, who was born in Somashettyhalli in Arasikere Taluk from Hassan District, joined the Indian Army in January 2008 and was on duty until 2020.
He served in the hit area of terrorism and part of several cons-rebellion operations carried out by Indian soldiers.
Now a 2014 cash officer batch, he is part of a team that established several emergency hospitals that were useful for Covid-19 management in MySuru.
Ashok joined the district fight against Covid-19 as a special officer at Covid Hospital at the District Hospital.
Then he was entrusted with the responsibility of the Covid Mandakalli care center and then made a nodal officer from the district war room.
“At the second wave, we launched a 15-line help channel that helped us in bed management, triage, care, vaccination, settlement of bill bills, etc.
Personally, I received hundreds of calls when I worked in the war room.
Until late at night , “he said.
“In the second wave, we have been able to provide beds to more than 10,000 patients.
We monitor patients directly from the entrance ticket in the hospital to be issued,” he said.
“One of the most memorable incidents was in the last week of May.
Around 11 o’clock at night, a young male patient who was the only breadwinner from his family who needed to be shifted from Seth Mohandas Tulsidas’s Maternity Hospital to the hospital District.
The patient is in a ventilator, and he needs an ambulance with a ventilator.
We can move it and save his life with the help of Dr.
Rajeshwari District Surgery and Dr.
Ravi.
The three of us are in a constant touch until 3am the next day to coordinate and save this youth life.
He responded to treatment and cured later, “he said.
Devaraj Urs Development Corporation Chairman R Raghu Kautilya, which is a responsible district war room, said the work of the officials and volunteers of the war room was very complicated because all callers were under pressure and tension.
“Especially finding ICU beds and ventilators when the second wave is at its peak is a big challenge.
Ashok just forgot to sleep for days when the cases were high,” he added.
MySuru: Retired Officer Army Fighting Different Wars
