Will Indians in Debt Trap After Expensive COVID Treatment Be Able To Come Out of It?
A retired army man in Akola district of Maharashtra, a line engineer in an automobile factory in Uttarakhands Rudrapur, and an electrician in a village in Bihars Muzaffarpur might not know each other, but they have a lot in common. After the second wave of COVID-19 in India, all three have been pushed into a debt trap  that they will either take years to emerge out of from or never will. In Maharashtra, Suresh Telgotes 25-year-old son, Devananda, is in a critical condition at the time of publishing this article. A UPSC aspirant and IIT-Bombay graduate, Devananda showed COVID symptoms in late April and subsequently developed post-COVID complications, including lung and heart failure.