In Chandigarh, 37 discharged, 37 active

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 21

Thirty-nine more Covid-19 patients — 37 from the city and two from Mohali — were discharged from the PGI and Shri Dhanwantri College, Sector 46, today.

Of the total 218 cases reported from the city, 178 have recovered, while three died. The number of active cases in the city now stands at 37.

According to the PGI, a 27-year-old woman nursing officer at the institute, a 55-year-old woman and her granddaughter (8) from Sector 37 were discharged in the morning. They will be home-quarantined for seven days.

In the evening, 21 asymptomatic patients — 19 from Sector 30, Bapu Dham, Sector 25, Sector 32, Mauli Jagran, Sector 52, Mani Majra and Maloya in Chandigarh and two from Mohali — were discharged under the new discharge policy for Covid-19 patients from the PGI. All of them remained asymptomatic during their quarantine period. Of them, 19 were sent to the post discharge care centre in Sector 22 for another seven-day isolation and two have been shifted to the post-discharge care centre in Mohali. A total of 15 patients were discharged from Shri Dhanwantri College, Sector 46.

Only nutritional care for asymptomatic

Of those discharged on Thursday, 19 have been shifted to the post discharge care centre in Sector 22 for another seven-day isolation. A senior ayurvedic physician, Dr Rajiv Kapila, Government Ayurvedic Dispensary, Sector 28, who had been posted at the Sector 22 centre till May 19 to monitor patients, said asymptomatic patients mostly required nutritional care and no medication or treatment was given to them. In case of any emergency, they could be shifted to a hospital.

Cure for moderate to severe cases

The PGI Director, Dr Jagat Ram, said in moderate cases, normal blood oxygen level of 95-100 per cent falls. Such patients are given oxygen. Most of the severe cases are patients with comorbidities such as heart problems, renal failure, diabetes, hypertension, pulmonary dysfunction, etc. These patients are kept under 24X7 observation in the ICU and are treated according to their condition. They may be put on ventilator or dialysis or given symptom-specific treatment, Dr Jagat Ram added.

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