Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Srinagar, Apr 11 (KINS):The Authorities here in Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura and Chest Disease Hospital, Srinagar claimed to have cured 16 positive coronavirus patients and maintained that all other, undergoing treatment are doing well and responding to the treatment.
The Authorities also said that patients were recovering fast while repeat test of good number of patients have already came negative.
“We have successfully treated three positive coronavirus patients and all of them have been discharged after following repeat tests twice,” Medical Superintendent SKIMS Soura, Dr Farooq Jan informed Kashmir Indepth News Service (KINS).
He however said that for precautionary measures they have been put in the administrative quarantine center.
Dr Jan further said that till date SKIMS Soura received 364 suspected corona patients. “We have received 364 suspected persons and subsequently discharged 306 of them. At present we have more than 30 positive Coronavirus patients in the hospital,” he said.
There were sick patients but they responded the treatment. “The condition of some Covid-19 positive patient deteriorated recently but thank God, they recovered sooner than expected. Otherwise, we were planning to put them on a ventilator but later, we decided not to as there condition improved,” the MS told KINS.
He said that all the positive patients in SKIMS are responding to treatment and there is no need to be panic.
Similarly, at the Chest Disease hospital Srinagar, so far 13 patients have been cured after they were tested positive for the deadly virus.
“We have cured 13 people who were positive for coronavirus. There tests were done thrice and results were negative,” Superintendent CD hospital Dr Saleem Tak told KINS.
He said that all these virus free patients now have been sent to the Nursing home Srinagar and authorities will test them again before allowing them to go home.
He praised the doctors for what he called “tremendous job”. ‘Our doctors were very much dedicated, so were paramedical staff,” he maintained.
The medical superintendent however said that the hospital is treating the 12 positive patients and that all were doing well.
It is to mention here that the authorities had told KINS that none of the patients having Coronavirus infection in Kashmir have been put on ventilator or admitted in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
“Fortunately we have no coronavirus patient on ventilator or in the ICU. All patients are stable,” authorities had said.
Ventilators are required for Covid-19 patients who develop acute respiratory distress syndrome when the lungs are filled with fluids that make it difficult to breathe.
“A ventilator is used when lungs are filled with fluid. Such patients find it very difficult to be oxygenated in a normal way. The only way to manage is to put the patient on ventilator assistance,” said the doctor. (KINS)
