{"id":23268,"date":"2020-04-08T20:02:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T14:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/coronavirus-patients-recovering-fast-none-on-ventilator-claim-3-hospital-authorities-in-kashmir\/"},"modified":"2020-04-08T20:02:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T14:32:35","slug":"coronavirus-patients-recovering-fast-none-on-ventilator-claim-3-hospital-authorities-in-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=23268","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Coronavirus patients recovering fast, none on ventilator\u2019, Claim 3 hospital authorities in Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u2018Coronavirus patients recovering fast, none on ventilator\u201914 positive patients negative on retest.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Srinagar, April 08:<\/strong> Despite fast spreading pandemic Covid-19 that has targeted 139 people so far with three deaths already taking place in the J&K UT, none of the patients having Coronavirus infection in Kashmir have been put on ventilator or admitted in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
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The Authorities here in three major Covid-19- hospitals claimed that patients were recovering fast while repeat test of 14 positive patients has already came negative.
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Medical Superintendent SKIMS Soura, Chest Diseases hospital Dalgate, and Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial (JLNM) hospital Rainawari, while speaking to Kashmir Indepth News Service (KINS), disclosed even though they have been treating Coronavirus patients since March 18 onwards, but none was put on ventilator or admitted in the ICU so far.
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\u201cFortunately we have no coronavirus patient on ventilator or in the ICU. All patients are stable and even I can say majority of them are recovering fast,\u201d SKIMS Soura Medical Superintendent, Farooq Ahmad Jan told KINS over phone.
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The MS further said, \u201cSo far 329 suspected Covid-19 patients were treated at the hospital. \u201c846 tests were conducted of which 54 tested positive and rest negative. At present we have 28 patients who are admitted in the hospital. But none of them is on ventilator or in ICU,\u201d Jan said.
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He said that the condition of one Covid-19 positive patient deteriorated recently but thank God, he recovered sooner than expected. \u201cOtherwise, we were planning to put him on a ventilator but later, we decided not to as his condition improved,\u201d the MS told KINS.
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Sources in the SKIMS said that even so far no Covid patients were classified as \u201ccritical\u201d and majority of the cases are only \u201cmild\u201d,.
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\u201cThere is a part of luck involved and above all, it\u2019s God\u2019s mercy on us,\u201d the medicos said. \u201cOnce the patient is on ICU, it\u2019s all up to Almighty when he or she would be off the ventilator. Putting a person on ventilator itself means, the patient is very sick.\u201d One of the doctors described.
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\u201cVentilators 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.
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\u201cA 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,\u201d said the doctor.
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Similarly, at the Chest Disease hospital Srinagar, that was in news for non-cooperation of patients and also for the unhygienic wards for Covid-19 patients in the initial stage, so far 14 patients have recovered after they were tested positive for the deadly virus. \u201cIn total, 25 patients were tested positive. Of them 14 recovered after spending time in isolation. Their tests were again conducted and they tested negative,\u201d Medical Superintendent CD hospital Dr Saleem Tak told Kashmir Indepth News Service (KINS).
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He said that at present eight positive patients are admitted in its isolation cum quarantine facility and they are gradually improving. \u201cThanks to Almighty, none of the patients deteriorated to an extent that we could shift them in the ICU or put them on the ventilator. All are improving gradually,\u201d he told KINS.
At the JLNM, where patients even fled amid allegations of lack of facilities including food and toilet facilities, there are 12 positive coronavirus patients including a toddle and her seven-year-old sibling.
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\u201cAll the 12 patients are undergoing treatment. None has recovered but the condition of none has either deteriorated too. No one is on ventilator or ICU. Hope all the 12 will recover soon,\u201d Medical Superintendent of JLNM, Dr Roshan din Kasana told KINS over phone.
According to the recent reports not more than 230 ventilators were available in J&K and that the government had ordered for more.
Athrout, an NGO, donated a few portable ventilators to CD hospital recently. Given the situation in countries like France, Spain, Italy, and even United States (US) where all modern equipment is available, the morality rate is increasing each passing day.
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Back home, only three deaths have taken place in J&K so far since the outbreak of the pandemic, there is of course some divine intervention that morality rate is almost zero here otherwise it would be a real disaster and not even doctors can stop it.
Murtaza Ahmed (name changed), a doctor who has more than eight years of experience in serving in an ICU and dealing with the patients on ventilators, said there is obviously some divine intervention in J&K that mortality rate is almost zero.
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\u201cThree deaths is nothing if we compare things with Italy and USA that have world\u2019s best health care facility. Hope things will remain same in Kashmir for next three weeks. The only thing is that people need to understand importance of staying in homes, otherwise a catastrophe is waiting at our doors,\u201d the doctor told KINS. (KINS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Coronavirus patients recovering fast, none on ventilator\u201914 positive patients negative on retest. Srinagar, April 08: Despite fast spreading pandemic Covid-19 that has targeted 139 people so far with three deaths already taking place in the J&K UT, none of the patients having Coronavirus infection in Kashmir have been put on ventilator or admitted in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23268","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\/23268","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=23268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23268\/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=23268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}