BENGALURU: For five days, a family in Chennai reached out to almost every chemist to source Sabril 500mg, a rare and life-saving medicine for their four-year-old son who suffers from epilepsy.
Given the lockdown and curbs on movement to contain the spread of covid-19, the search went online and as far as Odisha, when a person known to the family reached out to a senior police official in the eastern state. “I reached out to Arun Bothra sir (an IPS officer in Odisha) and he in turn tweeted about it (the medicine) and the word spread," Debasis Nayak, the family friend cited above said.
A few posts and many hours later, Nayak got a call from Bengaluru deputy commissioner of police (DCP--North East) Bheemashankar S Guled’s office saying two