AURANGABAD: Over 60% of Covid-19 patients have recovered in
Aurangabad district
so far, even as the number of people contracting the
disease
has not shown much improvement.
According to the district administration, as many as 1,126 patients out of 1,834 have been discharged from various hospitals following recovery from the contagion and 19 people have died so far.
Meanwhile, 64 people tested positive for Covid-19 in the district on Friday. A 30-year-old woman died on Thursday, eight days after delivering a baby through C-section
Arvind Gaikwad, Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) media coordinator, said that the mother died while undergoing treatment at 2 pm. “Uremic encephalopathy due to acute renal failure due to severe preeclampsia in Covid-19 associated coagulapathy with severe cytocain storm was the cause of her death,” he said.
Shrinivas Gadappa
, the head of department of obstetrics and gynecology at GMCH, told TOI that the woman was tested as she was from a containment zone.
“She delivered a healthy baby and tested positive the following day. She was then moved to the medicine ward, where she developed renal failure and other complications due to Covid-19. The baby is fine and is in NICU,” he said.
Gadappa added that the GMCH tests pregnant women coming from containment zones. “So far, the hospital has tested 437 pregnant women, of which 42 tested positive for Covid-19. Six of the women are yet to deliver babies. This is the first mortality of a mother at GMCH. Only in one case did the baby acquire the infection but tested negative after 14 days.”.
A 35-year-old woman, who had tested positive for Covid-19, from died at teh GMCH at 2am on Friday. She suffered from respiratory failure due to bilateral pneumonitis with acute respiratory distress syndrome, said the hospital authorities.
A 48-year-old man died at 1.20 pm on Friday due to uremic encephalopathy with acute kidney injury with bilateral pneumonia due to Covid-19 with hypertension with ischemic heart disease.
The GMCH stated that of the 188 Covid-19 patients under treatment at the hospital, 43 are in critical condition.
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