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Covid-19 in India: Patients are dying due to lack of oxygen. Is government responsible?

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Covid-19 in India: Patients are dying due to lack of oxygen. Is government responsible?

The second wave of Covid-19 is definitely creating shock waves in the country and the worse thing is that the hospitals are unable to treat patients due to lack of beds, oxygen and the list goes on.

Oxygen saturation in the blood below the level of 94 is considered as a serious matter for the Covid patients.

A patient, Srivastava (a freelance journalist) on April 16 took to his Twitter handle and said that his level was 52 and that no hospital in Lucknow is responding to his phone calls. He was 65.

Responding to the tweet, the media advisor of UP Chief Minister requested for more details. But unfortunately, his oxygen levels had fallen to 31.

And on Saturday, his son tweeted that his father died and blamed the government. This is undeniably a case of unavailability of oxygen.

As per a report in Scroll, just near Srivastava’s home, the government-run Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Civil Hospital has been waiting for an oxygen generation plant. It is one of 150 district hospitals across India for which the Central government floated tenders in October, eight months into the coronavirus pandemic, to create units that can produce medical oxygen on site. But six months later, the oxygen plant is yet to be installed.

Shockingly, nearly three million people live in the city and among them there are 44,485 cases of Coronavirus. This is not the only case, but 1200 km away in Navsari, another hospital refused admissions of the patients due to shortage of oxygen. Also, five other patients died due to the same reason.

Without any doubt, one can say that the patients of Covid-19 are dying due to the shortage of oxygen.

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Study: 4th Covid vaccine dose effective in protecting people over 60

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Study: 4th Covid vaccine dose effective in protecting people over 60

As per the new Israeli-led study, the largest healthcare organisation Clalit said fourth dose of Covid vaccine is effective for protecting people aged 60 and above.

The study found that a fourth dose can reduce the possibilities of symptomatic infection, hospitalisation, serious illness and mortality among the elders, Clalit said, Xinhua news agency reported.

In the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Clalit researchers and their colleagues from Harvard University in Boston analysed data from 182,122 Clalit members, all aged 60 and above, who received Pfizer’s fourth dose.

“The study unequivocally demonstrates that the fourth dose provides effective protection in preventing morbidity,” said Ran Balicer, Director of the Clalit Research Institute.

“It will help every person to make a decision on the fourth vaccine based on their level of personal risk,” he added.

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Covid-19: Here are the symptoms of fourth wave

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Covid-19: Here are the symptoms of fourth wave

covid-19 pandemic. BA.2 has two characteristics – they are dizziness and extreme tiredness. BA.2 sub-variant or stealth omicron affects more on the stomach and intestines of the people, which leads to digestive problems. there is currently no evidence that people can catch covid-19 from food. the virus that causes covid-19 can be killed at temperatures  similar to that of other known viruses and bacteria found in food.

Symptoms of Omicron:

  1. Fever
  2. Continuous Cough
  3. Fatigue
  4. Muscle and body health
  5. Shortness of breath
  6. Difficulty in breathing
  7. Skin rash
  8. Sleeping paralysis
  9. Heartburn
  10. Bloating
  11. Back pain
  12. Delirium
  13. A loss of appetite
  14. High temperature
  15. Sore throat
  16. Chest pain
  17. Abdominal pain
  18. Covid toes or figures
  19. Covid tongue
  20. Night sweats
  21. Diarrhoea
  22. Hoarse voice
  23. New loss of taste and smell
  24. Congestion or running nose
  25. Nausea or vomiting
  26. Headache
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Covid-19: WHO shares post COVID symptoms

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Covid-19: WHO shares post COVID symptoms

In the third year of pandemic, it is not just a fight against COVID, we have another challenge ahead of us i.e. dealing with post-COVID conditions. They are also known as long COVID conditions. With the growing number of cases of long COVID it is confirmed that COVID does not spare any body organ and it affects the biological ecosystem. Fatigue, trouble in breathing and cognitive dysfunction is the most common symptoms.

Fatigue: It is very common response from the body when fighting against any viral infection. It may last for weeks and it is very common symptom seen in all the patients who recovered from COVID.

Trouble in breathing: Even with the minimal physical activity person may have trouble in breathing. It is very common occurrence in the people who have been infected with COVID.

Cognitive dysfunction: It is commonly referred as brain fog. It actually means people having trouble with their attention, trouble in concentrating, trouble in recall or memory, trouble in sleeping.

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