Addressing higher mortality
Since the second covid-19 wave is breaching all past records in Jammu and Kashmir, people have started to get worried and anxious as the mortality rate in the region is witnessing an upswing.
Be it Jammu or Srinagar, in both the provinces close to sixty deaths have been reported since past many days and this figure is quite worrying. Though it is premature to say something concrete about the reason as to why the fatalities are increasing but one issue that has come to the notice is that senior medical officials including the senior faculty has been ignoring visits to covid wards.
This being the reason that the government had to order that senior faculty members of GMC in Jammu to make frequent rounds of wards where the COVID positive patients are admitted.
In a communication to Principal Government Medical College Jammu, Atal Dulloo (IAS), Financial Commissioner, Health & Medical Education Department ordered the ensuring supervision of the patients by the senior Faculty members.
The move is a welcome one and it should be implemented across the region and ensured that senior faculty members visit the covid wards physically to ensure better patient care and follow-up treatment.
This is all the more important during this second wave when the new virus strain is making things more complex as not only the positive cases are witnessing a surge but the mortality rates too have been making things worrisome.
Another issue that needs immediate tackling is that a medico body has expressed concern over the deadly fungal infection called mucormycosis infecting Covid-19 patients.
Cases of mucormycosis, commonly known as black fungus are being reported in several states of the country among recovering and recovered Covid-19 patients and this phenomenon has been witnessed in Jammu and Kashmir as well.
The medico body has advised limited use of steroids to ensure that this life-threatening disease in Covid patients is avoided.
The medico body has suggested a high degree of monitoring for Covid patients as any nasal, facial and eye complaints should not be ignored because these symptoms only can lead to early detection and timely intervention to control the fungus.
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