Updated: Suffering, trauma that the disease brings can severely affect patients and family members, he says Share Article AAA Kerala Fire and Rescue Services and Civil Defence workers provide food to people during the lockdown to contain coronavirus pandemic, in Kochi on May 9, 2021. Photo used for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: PTI Suffering, trauma that the disease brings can severely affect patients and family members, he says Last year, during the COVID-19 outbreak in Kerala, 83-year-old PO Shamsudeen, resident of Pattayam panchayat, was quickly moved to the hospital after he turned positive for the virus. The octogenarian contracted the virus from his grandchildren who returned from Dubai. Besides his age, what bothered the family and the hospital authorities was that he had already undergone two open-heart surgeries and had been operated upon for prostate. There was total panic in the family, as not just him, but 10 others in the family were also affected by the virus.