In Delhi, Sajjad Lone’s Wife Defeats Covid19
Sajad Lone and his wife Asma Lone
Night and day has lost its meaning for these COVID warriors at the Holy Family Hospital. Every moment presents a new challenge and every moment they rise up to the challenge.
“MY kids are in Delhi and their mother had come to see them when she contracted the infection,” Lone told
Kashmir Life from Delhi. “But the doctors were extremely great and they did whatever it required to help her come out of it,” Lone said they are in the process of shifting to their Delhi residence, post Covid-19 negative test that has already come.
Covid in India: 26-year-old doctor decides who will live and who will die Filed on May 6, 2021
Dr. Aggarwal fears what will happen if he gets infected too
New Delhi: Rohan Aggarwal is 26 years old.
He doesn t even complete his medical training until next year. And yet, at one of the best hospitals in India, he is the doctor who must decide who will live and who will die when patients come to him gasping for breath, their family members begging for mercy.
As India s healthcare system teeters on the verge of collapse during a brutal second wave of the novel coronavirus, Aggarwal makes those decisions during a 27-hour workday that includes a grim overnight shift in charge of the emergency room at his New Delhi hospital.
Covid claims 12 lives in twin cities
Capital reports lowest number of infections in 10 days
Lahore under lockdown amongst record breaking Covid-19 cases reported. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI:
The coronavirus infection rate has started to wane a bit in the twin cities, however, seven fatalities were still reported in Rawalpindi and five deaths occurred in the federal capital on Wednesday.
According to the Rawalpindi district health office (DHO), one patient at Holy Family Hospital (HFH) while three each at Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH) and Rawalpindi Institute of Urology and Kidney Liver Transplant (RIUKT) succumbed to the virus.
The number of patients receiving treatment in the aforementioned hospitals has dropped to 161 of which 147 are on oxygen tanks and seven are on ventilators. The district health department officials added that thus far, 134,339 people have been administered the Covid-19 vaccine.
India s second wave of Covid shows no sign of slowing with cases and deaths both at record levels today, but the country s top medical advisor is already warning of a third wave.
Bengaluru: India reported a record 412,262 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday and a record 3,980 daily death toll, as a second wave of infections swamps the health system and spreads from cities into the vast countryside.
COVID-19 infections in the world’s second most populous nation have surged past 21 million, with a death toll of 230,168, health ministry data show.
Government modelling had forecast a peak in second wave infections by Wednesday.
“This temporarily halts speculations of a peak,” Rijo M John, a professor at the Indian Institute of Management in the southern state of Kerala, said on Twitter.
With hospitals scrabbling for beds and oxygen in response to the surge in infections, the World Health Organisation said in a weekly report that India accounted for nearly half the coronavirus cases reported worldwide last week and a quarter of the deaths.