5th woman dies in Dakshina Kannada district due to Covid-19 complications

MANGALURU: Dakshina Kannada district recorded its fifth death due to complications caused by Covid-19 on Thursday. The 80-year-old woman was a resident of Kulashekar in the city. She was undergoing treatment at the ICU of Wenlock Hospital, the designated Covid-19 hospital in the district.
The death of P-507 comes a day after a 58-year-old woman, who was a resident of Bolar in the city, succumbed to Covid-19. All five victims in this coastal district are women, who had prior medical conditions that hastened their end.
P-507, like the other four victims, had a link to First Neuro Hospital, a supervised isolation centre at Padil. She was admitted there from March 15 to April 26 for high blood pressure and paralysis-related issues. A primary contact of P-432, the district’s second Covid-19 victim, this elderly woman and her 45-year-old son, who was her caretaker at the hospital in Padil, both tested positive for Covid-19 on April 27.
The medical bulletin that deputy commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh released, quoting district health and family welfare officer Ramachandra Bairy, said the x-ray of P-507 did not reveal signs of pneumonia of the lungs. “The cause of death, which happened around 5.30am on Thursday, was due to ‘septic shock’,” the bulletin said.
The health authorities had collected her swab sample on Wednesday and the report of the test is awaited, Dr Bairy said.
The first Covid-19 death in the district, P-390, occurred on April 19. The second one (P-432), the mother-in-law of P-390, was reported on April 23. The third death (P-409) was reported on April 30 and the last (P-536 and P-507) on Wednesday and Thursday. The are 13 active Covid-19 cases in Dakshina Kannada now.
Later on Thursday, the authorities discharged P-389, a 30-year old resident of Uppinangady. Admitted to Wenlock Hospital on April 19, her swab reports of May 10 and 13 tested negative. Her husband, a lawyer who contracted the infection while visiting the Supreme Court in Delhi, was discharged on May 6. The authorities also operated two Shramik special trains to Bihar and Rajasthan from Mangaluru Junction station during the day.