 My name is Dr. Sundar. I'm the head of International Transplant Services at the Manipal Hospital and also a senior nephrologist at the Manipal Hospital, Old Airport Road. We are now living in a difficult time, the COVID era. Please understand, the fear of COVID is more dangerous than COVID itself. A lot of my patients tell me that they are worried to go to the hospital because of the fear of COVID. I will tell you at this juncture, just last week, one of my transplant patients, 30 years post transplant, told me that is what just pain and I told him please rush to the hospital. He was very scared and he said, Dr. Sundar, I'm scared. I'll get COVID. I don't want to go. I had to pressurize him a lot and then manage to send him to the emergency room of Manipal hospitals. And there he was evaluated and found to have a massive heart attack. He was rushed to the cardiology lab, an emergency angiogram was done and he underwent a two-vessel angioplasty and his life was saved. Two days later, he got discharged and he called me and said, Dr. Sundar, thank you very much. If I had not gone to the hospital, I would be dead. Please understand, any emergency should be attended medically in the hospital. So please go to a hospital where all precautions are taken, especially at Manipal hospitals. We have special care. We see to that there is no mixing of COVID patients. We have protocols and guidelines and all parameters are done so that the risk of COVID infection is not there. Any emergency, whether it is a heart attack or a stroke or any other problem, which is not COVID, will lead to tension. The fear of the disease is worse than the disease. There are more people dying not due to COVID, but due to other emergencies and not taking adequate care. So my suggestion is, please do not ignore your symptoms. Please do not get worried of COVID and not take proper medical care, especially in places like Manipal hospitals where we have so many protocols to prevent COVID infection. We see to that the patient gets the proper care. So non-COVID care, especially in an emergency situation, is very important. So my message is, what is needed is social distancing, not medical distancing.