Three more discharged as 50 recover in city

Chaitanya Deshpande | TNN | May 4, 2020, 04:34 IST

Nagpur: Three patients, including a 15-year-old girl, recovered from Covid-19 and were discharged from hospital in Nagpur on Sunday. With these three, the city completed half century of the recovered patients.
Out of 151 total patients in Nagpur, now 50 have been discharged and eight have completed their home quarantine period of 14 days successfully. They are completely Covid-19 free now. Out of first 50, total 26 were admitted in GMCH while 24 were in IGGMCH. The recovery rate of Nagpur’s patients is 33.33% which is way more than Maharashtra state’s 17% and national recovery rate which is around 25%.
Nagpur’s first patient was recorded on March 11 and was discharged from hospital on March 26, exactly the 15th day of admission in hospital.
City’s 50th patient who got discharged on Sunday is a 15-year-old girl from Satranjipura. She had tested positive for Covid-19 on April 11 and was admitted in GMCH on April 12. The girl was asymptomatic carrier but had tested positive in her 14th day test. As per protocol, treatment was continued and fresh samples were taken on 20th and 21st day of admission. Both samples came negative. Hence, she was given discharge on May 3.
With city completed half century of recovered patients, Vidarbha is now moving towards century. Till Sunday, 94 patients have successfully recovered and been discharged from different hospitals in the region. Most of the admitted patients are asymptomatic and expected to recover on time.