50-year-old woman with 80% lung infection beats Covid

Rajkot: It was her sheer will to live that helped 50-year-old Chandraben Khachar beat coronavirus despite 80% infection in her lungs.
Khachar, a resident Aandapur village in Jasdan taluka of Rajkot had tested positive for Covid-19 last month. According to doctors, her condition was critical as her CRP score was 272 against 5 in a normal case. Her D-dimer reading had shot up to 4,200, which under normal circumstances should have been 500. CRP and D-dimer are inflammation and blood clot markers respectively.
Since she did not get a bed in Rajkot, she was taken to a private hospital in Surendrangar where doctors told the family that there was little hope of her survival.
The family members lost all hope and decided to treat her in their village. She was admitted to Virnagar covid care centre near her village. Dr. Dhaval Gosai, nodal officer at the centre said, “Her condition was critical and we could not administer her IV due to fear of blood clotting. We continued our efforts, however, because her positive attitude towards life and strong desire to live, she started recovering.”
She was discharged on May 1 after 12 days of hospitalization. The doctors who treated her include Dr Vidhi Vaghela, Dr Shital Menia, Dr Nilesh Bambhaniya and Dr Hetal Nakum.