Pune: Recovery rate improves to 54% in rural parts over last 10 days

PUNE: The recovery rate among Covid-19 patients in the rural parts of Pune has improved to 54% on July 30 as against 32% observed on July 20.
Rural Pune has 13 tehsils, including 14 municipal council towns.
Since the Covid-19 outbreak in March, rural Pune has recorded 7,670 cases. Of these, 4,175 have been discharged after successful recovery. Besides, 193 patients have succumbed to the virus. On July 30, as many as 3,302 active cases were recorded in rural Pune.
“Improvement in recovery has much to do with the fact that 80% of positive patients in rural Pune were asymptomatic and the condition of these patients was better when they were admitted to the Covid care centres in the first three weeks of July. Most of them have now been discharged,” district collector Naval Kishore Ram said.
He also attributed the improved recovery rate to ramped up rural healthcare infrastructure, which involved adding ICU, oxygenated and ventilator support beds, hiring of doctors, nurses, para-medics and laboratory technicians on contractual basis. “This has particularly helped in places like Bhor and Velhe tehsils,” Ram said.
Haveli, with 760 patients cured in last 10 days, has contributed a big way in improving the rural reocvery rate, a senior zilla parishad official said.