No nervous 90s for these super seniors
Aditya Dev, Meenakshi Sinha & Akanksha Gupta TNN
02.03.2021
Om Prakash Bhutani lost no time in getting the vaccine shot he had been waiting for. He also made sure someone was around, not so much to escort him as to take a picture. It was for his sons.
“My children were very concerned. As soon as the schedule was out for senior citizens, they got me registered online,” said the 92-yearold, a former Uttar Pradesh police chief who lives by himself in his Noida house, with a helper. On Monday, he was among the first to be vaccinated in the city, at the District Command Hospital.
Both his sons are abroad — one in the US and the other in Australia — and visiting them is an annual ritual for Bhutani but the pandemic has confined him to his home. Pramod Tyagi, the SHO of Film City, accompanied him.
Dr Satya Prakash, who is 90 and has diabetes and cardio-vascular problems, was accompanied by both his sons at the District Combined Hospital in Ghaziabad on Monday afternoon. Ashwani (62) took the vaccine along with his father. Ashish, who is a doctor, had received it earlier.
Dr Satya Prakash was a regular at his clinic in Navyug market before Covid broke out. In November, he lost his wife (88) to post-Covid complications. “The vaccine is effective and everyone should take it when their turn comes,” he told TOI. Another 92-year-old who turned up for the vaccine was Col D P Mehdiratta (retd). But he had to return disappointed after waiting for two hours at a session site in Gurgaon because the registration process moved slowly. “I waited since noon because there was some trouble with the system. The hospital staff did their best. I will come back tomorrow as I was feeling restless,” he said, adding, “There is no fear at all in getting vaccinated.”
OLD IS BOLD: O P Bhutani and Dr Satya Prakash
My children were very concerned. As soon as the schedule was out for senior citizens, they got me registered online
O P BHUTANI
Former police chief, UP
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