Pune: This Man Wants To Test COVID Positive So That He Can Serve His Mother Who Is Admitted In Hospital

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Pune/Pimpri, September 22, 2020: Manoj Dattatrye More, a senior journalist with The Indian Express and a citizen of Pimpri-Chinchwad, has undergone a Coronavirus disease (COVID19) test and is seeking a positive status for himself.

The reason: His 78-year-old mother has tested positive and has been admitted to Lokmanya Hospital in Chinchwad. “My mother is extremely ill and hospitalised….She can’t get up from her bed. I want to serve her to the best of my abilities,” More wrote in his Facebook post.

The Express journalist in his Facebook post has claimed that he is probably the only one in 500 crore people of the world to make such a demand. “I don’t think anywhere in the world anyone has made such a demand. When I was undergoing the test on Sunday, I told the medical staff to please give me good news that I am positive….The medical staff said please don’t say that…I told them that I want to take care of my other who is very old and ailing,” he told the doctors at YCM hospital.

His mother has tested positive. “Four days back, she collapsed and was on the floor for two hours. I and my sister lifted her and took her to at least three hospitals before admitting at Lokmany hospital,” he said.

The journalist said he has made such a demand to spite at people who run away from their near and dear ones who have tested positive.