Nirmal Milkha Singh, wife of track legend Milkha, died on Sunday after losing a three-week battle against Covid-19. Nirmal, 85, a former India volleyball captain, breathed her last at Fortis Hospital in Mohali.
Milkha, who contracted the disease first, is in ICU at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh. He was hospitalised first, and returned home and was admitted again.
Nirmal’s health deteriorated a few days after she was hospitalised in the last week of May. Her oxygen level dropped and she was put on HFNC (high flow nasal cannula) and NIV (non-invasive ventilator) intermittently. She was stable but her condition did not improve.
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