ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A 103-year-old man recovered from COVID-19 in Pakistan and became one of the oldest survivors of the disease, surpassing each and every one of the possibilities in a country with a weak fitness system, his relatives and doctors said. I.
Aziz Abdul Alim, a village resident in the northern mountainous district of Chitral, was released last week from an emergency reaction center after testing positive in early July.
“We were worried about him given his age, but he wasn’t worried at all,” Alim’s son, Sohail Ahmed, said by phone from his village near Pakistan’s border with China and Afghanistan.
Ahmed quoted his father as saying that he had lived long in life and that the coronavirus frightened him. However, he liked to be isolated.
Carpenter until the 1970s, Alim survived three women and nine sons and daughters, said Ahmed, himself in his fifties, adding that his father had separated from his fourth wife and is recently married to his fifth.
Alim also had to get ethical and mental help for his isolation and treatment, Dr. Sardar Nawaz, a leading medical officer at the Aga Khan Health Service emergency center, told Reuters on Friday.
The makeshift centre was set up in a girls’ shelter just weeks before Alim’s arrival and is the only one supplied to treat COVID-19 patients in miles.
Pakistan has recorded more than 270,000 cases of the disease and 5,763 deaths. While the number of others who tested positive has declined in the past month, government officials are concerned about an additional increase in the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, which takes place on 1 August.
Gibran Peshimam reports
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