COVID-positive youth died due to respiratory distress: Death audit

Sunit Dhawan

Tribune News Service

Rohtak, June 15

The death audit of a 36-year-old Rohtak man, who had tested positive for COVID-19 and died while undergoing intensive-care treatment at Rohtak PGIMS on Sunday, has revealed that he died due to respiratory distress.

“As per his death audit conducted today, he had no other life-threatening illnesses. His death is likely to have been caused due to respiratory distress induced by COVID-19,” Rohtak Civil Surgeon Dr Anil Birla told The Tribune on Monday evening.

The death audit of COVID-positive patients is conducted to ascertain their cause of death as their autopsy/post-mortem may lead to spread of infection, said Dr Birla.

It may be pertinent to mention here that of the six COVID-positive residents of Rohtak, who have succumbed to the virus so far, five had co-morbidities such as cancer, renal failure and other critical/chronic diseases.

The death audit of the 36-year-old man was conducted as he had no such life-threatening illness. The deceased, a resident of Old Housing Board Colony, used to travel to Gurugram where he worked.

He was put on ventilator support in an intensive-care unit (ICU) at the PGIMS in view of his critical condition after he tested positive for COVID-19 and had difficulty in breathing.