Need better containment strategy, ramping up of infra: Dharminder Nagar

One day you were planning surgeries and doing oncology and the next day, you had converted half the hospital into a Covid facility

The first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic began on a grim note for Paras Hospital founder Dharminder Nagar. The first employee to succumb in the pandemic was his tea boy who’d worked with him closely for almost a decade and was only in his early 30s. A daily presence, his passing felt like a personal loss to Nagar although they were a world apart in many ways.

At the time, the disease was a new, unknown and dreaded animal, and the hospital’s staff, nurses and even doctors were wary of treating patients. For a while Nagar found it difficult to “get