HYDERABAD: With at least 300 post
Covid cases currently under treatment at the state-run Gandhi Hospital and several other critical patients under treatment in private hospitals across the city, hundreds of cases of post Covid complications are currently lodged in city hospitals.
“While most of the patients now are trying to manage with home quarantine and known medications, the ones landing at hospitals are largely coming at later stages with complications. Unlike the initial days of the pandemic during which everyone was rushing to the hospital, now most of the cases are coming late,” said a source from a corporate hospital.
Severe complications requiring medical attention include paralysis, heart attacks and dialysis apart from multi organ failures. The main reason for these severe post-Covid complications seen within 15 days of the infection up to 3 months is that the novel coronavirus caused clotting of the blood vessels and its impact depends on the location of the clots.
“Maximum damage that has to happen in a patient happens during this period itself. This is why it is important to initiate steroid treatment, anti-coagulants, blood thinners and anti-platelets early on. The problem with Covid-19 is that although the mortality is low, it is the morbidity of the diseases which is very high and the damage that is caused by the virus stays on if it is not attended within the first 10 days,” said Dr M Raja Rao, superintendent Gandhi Hospital.