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The Indian Express •

Diabetic deaths in state surged 52 per cent amid Covid pandemic: RTI

Bakkaya Malaya Ippa, a tribal from Gadchiroli district, passed away in 2021, within days of contracting Covid. Doctors said his health condition deteriorated rapidly mostly because of his comorbidity — diabetes mellitus.Bakkaya, however, was not the only diabetic patient who became a victim of a wide range of post-acute sequelae of Covid-19. An RTI application filed by The Indian Express showed that Maharashtra witnessed a 52 per cent surge in “medically certified deaths” caused by diabetes in 2...
The Indian Express •

Maharashtra: One-third of all deaths in 2021 during Delta Covid surge

In Calendar year 2021, when hospitals across India were battling the delta wave of Covid-19, Maharashtra recorded a significant 20.47 per cent increase in all-cause deaths to 9.74 lakh as compared to the previous year. This was over and above the 16.57 per cent rise in all-cause deaths in calendar year 2020. Maharashtra accounted for almost 10 per cent of all-cause deaths across India in 2020.Four key insights emerge from an analysis of data obtained by The Indian Express from the state’s Civil...
Hindustan Times •

Hard knocks and tough lessons: How Mumbai’s health infra coped with Covid

“The whole ward was full. Not a single bed was vacant. There were patients lying on the floor. I was on a stretcher, and I did not even have a bedsheet to cover myself. I was scared and I felt alone. My husband was not allowed inside the Covid ward,” Patil, who spent two weeks in the hospital, said. “I still have nightmares about that night.” Maharashtra recorded its first set of Covid-19 cases on March 9 when a Pune-bound couple landed in Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International airport from...
Hindustan Times •

Corona outbreak: Don’t buy non-FDA approved sub-standard hand sanitisers

Taking advantage of the acute shortage of hand sanitisers in the city amid the coronavirus outbreak, local manufacturers are supplying sanitisers of inferior quality at a higher price. Labelled ‘kills 99% germs’, these products are not approved by the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) and are ineffective in providing safety against the new strain of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, HT found during its visit. Mumbai recorded two cases of coronavirus on Wednesday. HT Image According to direc...