Padma Shri Awardee Pt. Anand Mohan Zutshi fights and wins battle against Coronavirus

NOIDA/GHAZIABAD : Having fought and won the battle with Covid-19 within seven days of hospitalisation, a month short from his 94th birthday, Pt. Anand Mohan Zutshi ‘gulzar’ dehlvi, a noted Urdu poet, got discharged from hospital in Greater Noida after getting cured with Covid-19.

The nonagenarian from sector 26 in Noida has added another feather to his state of achievements that is of being the oldest surviving citizen in the district and have recovered with the deadly disease.

Born on July 7, 1926, the poet has got acknowledged with Padamshree Award in 2009 and Mir Taki Mir award

later in years.

While treatment, doctors said that he being a patient of heart, hypothyroid and advanced prostate, was initially admitted in kailash hospital in

last week of may after he complained slight fever and cough.

Later he was tested positive for Covid-19 and got referred to sharda hospital in greater Noida on June 1 where he was admitted in ICU and put on ventilator support due to his serious condition.

However, the dedication and positivity in life made him fight the disease with determination and he came out with flying colour beating the deadly virus on Sunday evening.

While getting discharged, the elderly poet promised medical staff a dinner treat once fully recovered at home.

His 82-year-old wife and he himself is getting looked after their son who has moved from Mumbai since last nine months tenting to his ailing parents.

Meanwhile, 21 persons were tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday taking the total number to 653.

In Ghaziabad, 28 patients were tested positive and the total number here stands at 502.