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Corona epidemic More than three years have passed. But the virus is still a cause for concern. Now an ICMR study on Covid patients has come out. In which it is stated that 6.5 percent of the Covid patients died within a year of being discharged from the hospital. Most of these patients were over 60 years of age. All these people were victims of some disease or the other. The number of deaths was higher among men than among women.
The patients who died had severe lung, heart and liver diseases. These patients also had post-Covid complications. Even after recovering from Covid, he was facing problems like shortness of breath and brain fog. About 74 percent of the Covid patients had comorbidities.
14419 patients were included in this study. These patients were contacted by phone within one year of hospital discharge. Of a total of 14419 patients, 952 or 6.5 percent died within one year of hospital discharge.
This is the data of patients admitted to hospitals from September in the year 2020. 17 percent of them had post-Covid complications. It is also stated in the research that people who covid For the first dose of the vaccine, the risk of death was reduced by 40 percent.
Death due to post covid complications
Rajiv Gandhi Hospital’s Covid Nodal Officer Dr. Ajit Jain told Tv9 that many people faced post-Covid problems after Corona. Patients suffered from respiratory and heart disease the most. Among them, those who already had another disease, their condition was bad. In such a situation, even after being discharged from the hospital, his health was not good. This risk was higher in old age. This is why the death rate among patients discharged from the hospital was over 60 years.
All patients who died after hospital discharge were patients with comorbidities. That is, they already have liver, heart and Diseases of the kidneys were In such a situation, this study shows that patients with such diseases are at risk from Covid. In all three waves of Covid, it was also observed that the number of deaths was higher among patients suffering from chronic disease.
The threat of Covid is not averted
Epidemiologist Dr. Anshuman Kumar says that the threat of corona virus is not over yet. Cases of this virus are still coming all over the world. In such a situation people should not be careless. Especially the elderly and patients suffering from chronic diseases need to be more careful. However, now there is no such threat from Corona as it was before, but its new forms will continue to come.
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