Experimental cocktail saves two seniors

New Delhi: Two Covid-positive senior citizens with cardiac problems were successfully administered antibody cocktail therapy and saved from developing severe complications, doctors at BLK-Max Super Specialty Hospital said on Thursday. Sunirmal Ghatak (70) and Suresh Kumar Trehan (65) were on Tuesday administered a cocktail of Casirivimab and Imdevimab as part of this single-dose infusion-based treatment, which is said to reduce the chance of hospitalisation by 70% in patients with mild to moderate symptoms. Ghatak, with a known cardiac problem, had undergone angioplasty with stenting in the past, the hospital said. Trehan reported to the hospital two days ago with severe breathlessness. He had no previous history of ailment. His echocardiography showed a strained heart with an ejection fraction of only 25%, it added. Both the patients had oxygen saturation level above 95% and came to the hospital within three days of developing Covid-19 symptoms. This was the first time that monoclonal antibody cocktail therapy was administered at the BLK-Max hospital. Hospitals like Apollo and Fortis have already used the cocktail therapy to treat Covid patients.