“Need 10 boxes of cigarettes delivered to my home” man asks journalist helping with oxygen and beds
Bengaluru: At a time when the country is worst affected by the deadly second-wave of Coronavirus activists, NGOs, Journalists and others have stepped in to help people in distress. They are using social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram to take distress call from people and to help them.
On Saturday India witnessed nearly 3.5 lakh cases across the country. With cases piling up the state governments have also resorted to night curfews and weekend curfews in their respective states to curb the spread of the virus.
While many are following the COVID protocols of staying at home, some of them are mocking and trolling people who are out on the ground to cover stories, help people in distress, and others.
In one such incident shared by a journalist working with The News Minute, Prajwal shared a screenshot of his Instagram messages where a person was seen asking him to deliver 10 boxes of cigarettes to his home as nobody was delivering it.
“Need 10 boxes of Malbaro lights. Delivered to my home rn. Nobody is delivering” (SIC) the user wrote in his message. (Marlboro lights is a brand of cigarettes)
Prajwal took to his Twitter account and share the screenshot without naming the person who sent him the message and urged people to not do it.
“Please don't do this. I am working on stories and sending emergency requests for oxygen, hospital beds to volunteer teams. Read the situation outside” Prajwal wrote in the tweet.
People on Twitter asked Prajwal to name the person or to share his account ID.
Please don't do this. I am working on stories and sending emergency requests for oxygen, hospital beds to volunteer teams. Read the situation outside ?? pic.twitter.com/wt3uHoX3g2
— Prajwal (@prajwalmanipal) April 24, 2021
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Screenwriter Salim Khan on ventilator support and stable, say doctors
Mumbai (PTI): Veteran screenwriter Salim Khan suffered a brain haemorrhage which has been tackled, is on ventilator support as a safeguard and stable, doctors treating him said on Wednesday, a day after he was admitted to the Lilavati Hospital here.
The 90-year-old, one half of the celebrated Salim-Javed duo which scripted films such as "Sholay", "Deewar" and "Don" with Javed Akhtar, is in the ICU and recovery might take some time given his age.
"His blood pressure was high for which we treated him and we had to put him on a ventilator because we wanted to do certain investigations. Now the ventilator was put as a safeguard so that his situation doesn't get worse. So it is not that he is critical," Dr Jalil Parkar told reporters.
"We did the investigations that were required and today we have done a small procedure on him, I will not go into the details. The procedure done is called DSA (digital subtraction angiography). The procedure has been accomplished, he is fine and stable and shifted back to ICU. By tomorrow, we hope to get him off the ventilator. All in all, he is doing quite well," he added.
Asked whether he suffered a brain haemorrhage, the doctor said, "Unko thoda haemorrhage hua tha, which we’ve tackled. No surgery is required.
As concern over Khan's health mounted, his children, including superstar Salman Khan and Arbaaz Khan, daughter Alvira, and sons-in-law Atul Agnihotri and Aayush Sharma, have been seen outside the hospital along with other well-wishers. His long-time partner Akhtar was also seen coming out of the hospital.
Khan, a household name in the 70s and 80s, turned 90 on November 24 last year. It was the day Dharmendra, the star of many of his films, including "Sholay", "Seeta aur Geeta" and "Yaadon Ki Baraat", passed away.
Hailing from an affluent family in Indore, Khan arrived in Mumbai in his 20s with dreams of stardom. He was good looking and confident he would make a mark in the industry as an actor. But that did not happen. And then, after struggling for close to a decade and getting confined to small roles in films, he changed lanes.
He worked as an assistant to Abrar Alvi and soon met Akhtar to form one of Hindi cinema's most formidable writing partnerships. They worked together on two dozen movies with most of them achieving blockbuster status.
Other than "Sholay", "Deewar" and "Don", Khan and Akhtar also penned "Trishul", "Zanjeer", "Seeta Aur Geeta", "Haathi Mere Saathi", "Yaadon Ki Baarat" and "Mr India".
