{"id":22459,"date":"2020-03-31T18:08:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T12:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=22459"},"modified":"2020-03-31T18:08:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T12:38:39","slug":"spare-hospitals-for-severe-cases-of-coronavirus-dak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=22459","title":{"rendered":"Spare hospitals for severe cases of coronavirus: DAK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar Mar 31:<\/strong> Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Tuesday has urged health authorities in Kashmir valley to spare hospitals for patients who have severe disease from the novel (new) coronavirus.<br \/>\n\u201cMost people infected with the novel virus do not require hospitalization,\u201d said DAK President Dr Nisar ul Hassan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to reserve hospital infrastructure and manpower for those who need them. We can\u2019t pile up those who don\u2019t need to be in hospitals and leave no beds for those who actually need them,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nDr Nisar said patients who are positive for COVID-19 and have mild disease can stay in isolation at home for 2 weeks and contact their health care provider by phone for guidance about clinical management. These patients may just need a Paracetamol and they recover on their own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, older patients and those with underlying medical conditions should be observed in hospitals, even if they have milder illness given the possible risk of progression to severe illness in them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersons who have history of travel or contact with a confirmed case after screening should be quarantined either at home or at a designated community center. In no case should they occupy hospital beds,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nDr Nisar said only those patients who have severe disease should get admitted to a hospital so that the work force at hospitals can focus on the most critical cases.<\/p>\n<p>He said mild cases are those who have symptoms of fever and cough, but are stable and have no pneumonia or hypoxia. Severe cases have difficulty in breathing and are hypoxic, and critical cases have respiratory and other organ failure.<\/p>\n<p>Quoting a large study of 44,000 patients from china, Dr Nisar said 81 percent had mild disease, 14 percent had severe disease and 5 percent had critical illness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this study, all deaths occurred among patients with critical illness. While overall case fatality rate was 2.3 percent, the case fatality rate among patients with critical disease was 49 percent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKashmir valley has, so far reported 43 laboratory confirmed cases and two deaths due to the novel (new) coronavirus,\u201d Dr Nisar added<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar Mar 31: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Tuesday has urged health authorities in Kashmir valley to spare hospitals for patients who have severe disease from the novel (new) coronavirus. \u201cMost people infected with the novel virus do not require hospitalization,\u201d said DAK President Dr Nisar ul Hassan. \u201cWe need to reserve hospital infrastructure and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}