Two sufferers, together with a minor, recognized with Covid-19 died at Mumbai’s King Edward Memorial (KEM) hospital final week, a Hindustan Occasions report stated on Tuesday.
In keeping with the report, the medical doctors stated that the deaths have been attributable to comorbidities together with Covid-19. One affected person aged 14, suffered kidney failure because of nephrotic syndrome and the opposite affected person, 54, was present process most cancers therapy, the report stated.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC) has stated that Could has seen extra Covid sufferers than the earlier months, however the sickness is now an endemic, and never a trigger for concern.
The report additionally stated that The Seven Hills hospital and Kasturba hospital have designated beds for Covid-19 sufferers, which could be elevated with necessity.
No must panic, says hospital
Hospital authorities, whereas clarifying that these deaths weren’t because of Covid-19, however critical illnesses like nephrotic syndrome with hypocalcemic seizures and most cancers, stated that there was no want for folks to panic.
In keeping with the information company PTI, the BMC stated that only a few circumstances of the Covid-19 an infection are discovered and that too sporadically. The 2 sufferers who died on the hospital have been from Sindhudurg district and Dombivli in Thane district and weren’t residents of Mumbai, a BMC assertion stated.
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