Sizzling Sunday: 41 more discharged

Vadodara/Anand: It was a perfect gift to their mothers, incidentally on Mother’s Day, as eight-month-old boy and a 17-month-old girl were discharged from COVID-19 hospital at GMERS Medical College and Hospital, Gotri on Sunday.
Eight-month-old Mohammed Hussain from Halol and 17-month-old Siya Rana, a resident of Panigate area of Vadodara, bid happy farewell to the hospital as their mothers profusely thanked the doctors and nurses for all the help that they had provided to their kids.
The duo had caught infection from elder members of their families, hospital sources said.
Dr Vinod Rao, senior IAS officer and OSD for COVID-19 at Vadodara, said a total of 41 patients were discharged from two hospitals and two from Covid care centres on Sunday as per new discharge guidelines of union health ministry.
The 41 include four from GMERS Medical College and Hospital, Gotri, eight from SSG Hospital, 13 from CCC at ITI and 16 from High Speed Rail Training Institute.
Rao said 93 have been discharged since Saturday. “With total 291 out of 528 patients getting discharged, the recovery rate has reached 55 % while 39 % patients are under treatment. The mortality rate in Vadodara stands at 6 %,” he said.
Anand district too witnessed a happy Sunday after 17 went home in the highest single-day discharge, taking the total number of recoveries to 64. Of these 11 are from Khambhat, five from Umreth and one from Petlad. Six were discharged from Shree Krishna Hospital, Karamsad, 10 from Anand general hospital and one from SVP Hospital, Ahmedabad.
On Sunday, a 56-year-old woman from Akbarpur area of Khambhat tested positive, taking the total number of cases to 83.
“Now, there are only 11 patients undergoing treatment in Anand,” said collector R G Gohil.
“Most patients discharged were asymptomatic. While the new discharge guidelines state that patients with mild or very mild symptoms can be allowed to go after 10 days of symptom onset, majority of those discharged on Sunday had already completed 14 days stay at three hospitals,” Gohil said.
Of the 11 patients still getting treated, 10 are at Shree Krishna Hospital, Karamsad while one is at the cardiac care centre at Khambhat. Two patients are under ventilator while one is on oxygen and condition of eight others is stable.