According to Hindustan Times, actor Mahekk Chahal was placed on a ventilator and spent nearly four days in an intensive care unit (ICU) of a hospital in Mumbai. Mahekk Chahal is recovering but is still being cared for in a hospital to prevent a “relapse.”
Mahekk Chahal’s Statements
“I got pneumonia,” Chahal states, “I was in the ICU for 3-4 days. I was on an oxygen ventilator. I just collapsed on January 2 and it was like knives in my chest. I couldn’t take a single breath. I was rushed to the hospital and admitted immediately. A CT scan was taken. I’m still hospitalized, it’s been eight days, though I’m in the normal ward. I have improved a lot, (but) the oxygen still goes up and down. Both my lungs were infected.”
Being terrified by an attack of breathlessness is a serious matter. Chahal recollects, “I was super scared because I have never come to a point in my life where I can’t take a breath and I’m about to faint. Every time I was coughing it was painful, (And) I was thinking, ‘What is going on?’ as we had no clue.”
Only Chahal’s “close friends, family, and co-actors” from Naagin 6 knew about her condition. “I needed to rest, so I didn’t want to be in touch with anyone or reply to thousand messages asking for updates. I wanted to focus to come back stronger,” Chahal reveals.
Two days after the actor was checked into the hospital, Mahekk Chahal’s mother took a plane from Norway to the United States. Meanwhile, Chahal is convinced that her frequent trip to areas with chilly climates, like Delhi, caused her to have a severe cold. “I thought I had a normal cold, so I was doing all the remedies. I didn’t realize that the cold and the cough were so severe. Now I don’t want to take any chances, so I want to get 100% fit and then get discharged,” she added.
