Guj woman, 45, beats Covid after 202 days in hospital

It took a 45-year-old woman 202 days to defeat Covid-19 and return home victorious to her family in Dahod after the long stretch of hospitalisation. She underwent treatment at Dahod and Vadodara and was finally discharged after her condition turned stable with minimal oxygen requirement, reports Sachin Sharma.
Geeta Dharmik, who had lost her father in April, had gone to Bhopal for his last rites on April 23. That trip was the beginning of her long journey with ailment after Dharmik started feeling unwell upon her return on April 25.
Her husband Trilok Dharmik, a railway employee, said that Geeta stayed in home quarantine and gave her sample for a RT-PCR test. However, her oxygen levels went down on May 1 and she also started having fever and had to be rushed to the Dahod railway hospital. "Later, her tests also confirmed Covid infection," said Trilok.
Geeta was doing well for the around three days, but her condition deteriorated on May 5 and she was admitted to a private hospital in Vadodara on May 7, where she was kept till May 23. "We decided to shift her back to Dahod as she only needed oxygen therapy and all other treatment had been done," said Trilok. Geeta was brought back to the railway hospital in Dahod. Here, she was kept on a ventilator for two months and then for another month on a BIPAP machine.