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Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday stressed on the role of private doctors, specially family physicians, in the fight against COVID-19, saying they can help in early diagnosis of the infection in their patients and facilitate timely treatment for them.
ISSUE DATE: May 3, 2021 UPDATED: April 28, 2021 20:59 IST Covid patients at the LNJP hospital in Delhi Delhi The crematorium at Kalkaji, on April 16, had a line of plastic-covered people waiting outside. Only their eyes, burning with grief, were visible. They were members of 12 families who had lost their loved ones to Covid. “It took us two days of calling up friends, family and relatives just to get ventilator support for my mother. I also paid Rs 18,000 for Remdesivir treatment. By the time we got her to an ICU, she was in severe pulmonary distress and died within 18 hours,” says Suhas...
“Oxygen therapy, vitamins, steroids and low molecular weight heparin (blood thinners), when used at appropriate stages under medical supervision, make for an excellent recovery rate. People should not panic over the shortage of remdesivir in Pune," Rajhans said. Infectious disease expert, Parikshit Prayag, said, "Remdesivir only shortens duration of illness in carefully selected patients - like those with early hypoxia (low blood oxygen saturation) or high-grade fever with lower respiratory involvement. This impression, that it is life-saving, makes a patient desperate and anxious when she...
MUMBAI: The head of Maharashtra's Covid task force Dr Sanjay Oak on Thursday said a coronavirus patient can infect 400 people, and hence, there is no .
Maharashtra's death toll now stands at 51753, with the case fatality rate at 2.47 per cent, well above the national figure of 1.42 per cent. Dr Sanjay Oak, who heads the coronavirus task force comprising senior specialist doctors constituted on April 13 last year, said the latest spike cannot be termed a "second wave" of the coronavirus pandemic. "People are not following Covid-appropriate behaviour. They need to restrain themselves," he said. Maharashtra Government's Principal Secretary (Health) Pradeep Vyas blamed people's "indiscipline and negligence" for the spike. "There is laxity in fol...