If the government decides to extend the lockdown, we will have to sit idle without work. Pradeep Kashyap, 22, an ambulance driver who ferries patients to Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital, a dedicated covid-19 facility, has not been able to visit his home at Ghaziabad in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh since the lockdown began on 25 March.
Kashyap, who started driving his father’s ambulance a little more than a year ago, chooses to sleep inside the vehicle at night. “We have to protect the family, and work is also important.
If all ambulance drivers sit at home, who will handle patients? Whatever money I can give to my family, I transfer it to their account." Millions of daily wagers are bearing the brunt of some of the most stringent measures the