Hyderabad body builder makes miraculous recovery from Covid

HYDERABAD: After a month of battling Covid-19 with an extremely severe lung infection – his CT severity score of 25/25 -- a 32-year old body builder from the city has finally walked out of the hospital, recovered.
Malkajgiri resident, Susheel Kumar Gaikwad, who has represented Telangana in multiple competitions, developed Covid-19 symptoms in the last week of April and was subsequently admitted to a local hospital in early May.
Since his condition steadily started deteriorating, he was rushed to Yashoda Hospital on May 19 where a multidisciplinary team including pulmonologists, intensive care specialists, respiratory therapy, physiotherapy and allied specialists attended to him.
Doctors treating Susheel said that his dramatic recovery is rooted in various reasons: underlying fitness, positive attitude, determination and willingness to face the odds. They said, the young body builder has now become a role model for critically-ill patients.
“He has completely recovered now from being almost on the verge of death. He still requires oxygen, around one to two liters, when walking but is mostly comfortable without oxygen otherwise. We can’t say anything about his latest CT score as there were coexisting bacterial and fungal lung infection too,” said Dr Vishveshwaran Balasubramanian, senior pulmonologist, Yashoda Hospitals, Malakpet.