Coronavirus UK: This man came home from the hospital to die. His son found a way to keep him alive
When Suryakant "Suri" Nathwani returned from the hospital, the reserved 81-year-old grabbed his son's hand and pleaded to be allowed to die at home. "He said, 'Please promise me one thing: If I'm going to go, I'm going to go here. Do not take me back there,'" his son Raj Nathwani said.
Death was not an outcome Raj, 55, was willing to accept -- but he knew his father's chances of surviving coronavirus were not in his favor.
Raj had been tracking the virus since January, watching countless news reports: about the toll it had taken on multigenerational households; about medics in Italy's overstretched health system being too swamped to make home visits; about elderly people in China with pre-existing conditions -- including the one his father has -- having a higher chance of dying.
"I'm not a betting man, but if I was... [I would] definitely put my money on him not making it," Suri's family doctor, general practitioner Dr. Bharat Thacker, told CNN.
The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 219,000 people worldwide, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University in the US.
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