RANCHI: Purushottam Kumar, 34, never thought that he would have to spend more than two months in the hospital after testing positive for Covid-19 on April 22. But as he faced tough realities, Kumar dropped his thoughts to return. The family where his wife and two young sons are waiting. The doctors of the district hospital here diagnosed him 85% lung damage And Kumar had experienced near-death three times in the hospital. Now, he has been declared COVID-free and was discharged from the hospital on Saturday.
Thanking the collective effort of the team of doctors at Ranchi Sadar Hospital, Kumar said that if it was not for the support and care of the doctors and medical staff of the hospital, he would not have been able to do this. “I did not have money to get expensive and lengthy treatment in a private hospital. Actually, I was not prepared for this kind of situation. It is because of Ranchi’s district hospital that I have got a second chance in life.”
According to hospital sources, Kumar, a resident of Nawada in Bihar, was admitted to a private hospital here on April 30 after being referred by doctors from Nawada. His condition was already critical when he reached Ranchi with a CO-RADS (Covid-19 Reporting and Data System) score of 17/25 (the higher the score, the worse the lung damage). He got a bed in the district hospital on May 2.
Kumar was treated by a medical team of doctors, which included Dr Anshuman, Dr Rajkumar, Dr Pawan and Dr Ajit along with anesthetists Dr Pankaj and Dr Neeraj, who monitored his health throughout his stay.
One of the doctors who treated him said, “A week after Kumar was admitted, we had come to a point where he started breathing in the early hours and we were instructed to call the duty doctor. They had to be managed remotely.”
Speaking to TOI, Dr Pawan said, “We discharged the patient only after the CO-RADS score came down to 12/25 and consulted a pulmonologist.”
Dr. Ajit said, “We started administering him” remdesivir with other medicines. Meanwhile, we had to shift her to non-invasive ventilation support as her condition worsened. I am very happy that he is recovering and the credit goes to the ventilator technicians Nandini, Gunja and Vinita who used to monitor him overnight for several days.
Nandini said: “At times we thought that we would lose the patient but it was his will power and cooperation that he survived even after being put on invasive ventilator support thrice. After his condition improved, we also helped him in physiotherapy so that he could recover faster.”
Dr Pradeep Bhattacharya, Professor of Critical Care and Head of RIMS Trauma Centre, said that the COVID-19 virus damages the lungs immediately after infecting a person and the recovery path varies. “Basically, it’s just a damage-control process. As soon as a patient becomes infected the lungs are damaged in the first five days of infection and we’re going through medication as well as with different types of support like invasive and non-invasive. Ventilators work on rebuilding it. Sometimes patients with low immunity succumb to the infection. However, in this case, the patient was relatively young and his body responded well to the treatment.
Thanking the collective effort of the team of doctors at Ranchi Sadar Hospital, Kumar said that if it was not for the support and care of the doctors and medical staff of the hospital, he would not have been able to do this. “I did not have money to get expensive and lengthy treatment in a private hospital. Actually, I was not prepared for this kind of situation. It is because of Ranchi’s district hospital that I have got a second chance in life.”
According to hospital sources, Kumar, a resident of Nawada in Bihar, was admitted to a private hospital here on April 30 after being referred by doctors from Nawada. His condition was already critical when he reached Ranchi with a CO-RADS (Covid-19 Reporting and Data System) score of 17/25 (the higher the score, the worse the lung damage). He got a bed in the district hospital on May 2.
Kumar was treated by a medical team of doctors, which included Dr Anshuman, Dr Rajkumar, Dr Pawan and Dr Ajit along with anesthetists Dr Pankaj and Dr Neeraj, who monitored his health throughout his stay.
One of the doctors who treated him said, “A week after Kumar was admitted, we had come to a point where he started breathing in the early hours and we were instructed to call the duty doctor. They had to be managed remotely.”
Speaking to TOI, Dr Pawan said, “We discharged the patient only after the CO-RADS score came down to 12/25 and consulted a pulmonologist.”
Dr. Ajit said, “We started administering him” remdesivir with other medicines. Meanwhile, we had to shift her to non-invasive ventilation support as her condition worsened. I am very happy that he is recovering and the credit goes to the ventilator technicians Nandini, Gunja and Vinita who used to monitor him overnight for several days.
Nandini said: “At times we thought that we would lose the patient but it was his will power and cooperation that he survived even after being put on invasive ventilator support thrice. After his condition improved, we also helped him in physiotherapy so that he could recover faster.”
Dr Pradeep Bhattacharya, Professor of Critical Care and Head of RIMS Trauma Centre, said that the COVID-19 virus damages the lungs immediately after infecting a person and the recovery path varies. “Basically, it’s just a damage-control process. As soon as a patient becomes infected the lungs are damaged in the first five days of infection and we’re going through medication as well as with different types of support like invasive and non-invasive. Ventilators work on rebuilding it. Sometimes patients with low immunity succumb to the infection. However, in this case, the patient was relatively young and his body responded well to the treatment.
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