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GANDHINAGAR, MAY 22
With Gujarat reporting 363 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the number of such patients in the state has gone up to 13,273, an official said on Friday.
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During the same period, 29 patients succumbed to the infection, taking the death toll in the state to 802, said Principal Secretary, Health, Jayanti Ravi.
As many as 392 patients were discharged from hospitals, which took the number of recovered persons in Gujarat to 5,880, she said.
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Gujarat’s COVID-19 figures are as follows: Positive cases 13,273, new cases 363, deaths 802, discharged 5,880, active cases 6,591 and people tested so far 1,72,562.
275 new coronavirus cases, 26 deaths in Ahmedabad district
With 275 new coronavirus cases found since the previous evening, the count of coronavirus cases in Ahmedabad district reached 9,724 on Friday, a senior health official said.
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— CMO Gujarat (@CMOGuj) May 22, 2020
Out of 29 COVID-19 deaths in Gujarat during this period, 26 patients died at various hospitals in Ahmedabad city alone, said Principal Secretary (Health) Jayanti Ravi.
The district accounts for 645 out of 802 COVID-19 deaths recorded in Gujarat so far, making it the worst affected district in the state.
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At the same time, out of 392 coronavirus patients discharged across Gujarat during the day, 328 were discharged in Ahmedabad.
Since Thursday evening, 272 new patients were detected in Ahmedabad city and three in rural areas of the district.
પરપ્રાંતિય શ્રમિકો, પ્રવાસીઓ, વિદ્યાર્થીઓનાં સ્થળાંતરની કામગીરી અંગે સમીક્ષા કરી, જરૂરી સૂચનો કર્યા.#GujaratFightsCovid19 @vijayrupanibjp@pkumarias @DARPG_GoI @InfoGujarat https://t.co/xo31mZyUAk
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Out of 9,724 cases in Ahmedabad district, 9,574 were from the city while 150 cases were reported from other parts of the district.
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has acquired 1,500 beds from private hospitals so far. 500 COVID-19 patients have been admitted to such hospitals.
Ahmedabad shows improvement in recovery rate
According to Dr Rajiv Kumar Gupta, additional chief secretary, who is OSD of Ahmedabad, the recovery rate has increased by over 140 per cent against the recovery rate in the state that has increased by 92 per cent.
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He said the recovery rate of Ahmedabad that was 15.85 per cent on May 5, was 38.1 per cent on May 21. Gujarat’s recovery rate was 22.11 per cent on May 5 and was 42.51 per cent on May 21. India’s recovery rate, according to him, was 28.62 per cent on May 5 and came to 41.06 per cent on May 21.
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Gupta attributed the increased recovery rate to the multi-pronged strategy adopted. He said the number of surveillance teams have been increased from 318 to 616 and added that due to increased surveillance, the cases are detected early and hence the recovery rate has gone higher.
He said the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has requisitioned 42 private hospitals and ordered them to provide 50 per cent beds for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. A total of 1,500 beds have been provided for COVID-19 patients so far, he added.
Admission of serious patients behind high mortality: Civil Hospital OSD
The Ahmedabad civil hospital in Gujarat on Friday said that the high mortality rate in COVID-19 cases and low recovery rate at the facility is mostly because serious coronavirus patients with high chances of death are admitted there.
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Civil Hospital OSD Dr M M Prabhakar also claimed that unlike many other hospitals which mostly admit asymptomatic patients and give discharge in three days if the patient doesn’t have a fever, treatment of serious patients at this facility goes on for over 10 days.
“We mostly admit serious coronavirus patients. We also admit patients who were turned away by other hospitals. We first keep them on oxygen support and then on a ventilator. The treatment of such serious patients go on for over 10 days. We give them discharge only after they test negative for the infection,” he said.
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“Other hospitals admit asymptomatic patients and give discharge in three days as per the new policy. This is not the case with us. But we admit serious patients and treat them for many days. So it shows difference in the recovery rate,” Prabhakar added.
According to him, the number of deaths at the civil hospital ‘appear high’ because many patients who are brought there were either already dead or die shortly after admission.
This government-run hospital located in Asarwa area of the city is considered as the largest civil hospital in Asia.
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The hospital’s defence came days after a data shared by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) revealed that nearly 50 per cent of the total coronavirus infection deaths in Gujarat so far have been reported from this civil hospital.
Out of the total 749 COVID-19 deaths reported across Gujarat till May 20, as many as 351 patients succumbed to the disease in the Ahmedabad civil hospital, as per the data shared by the city civic body.
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▪ રાજ્યમાં છેલ્લા 24 કલાકમાં 363 નવા કેસ નોંધાયા, વધુ 29 દર્દીઓ જંગ હાર્યા તો 392 દર્દીઓએ કોરોનાને માત આપી
▪અમદાવાદમાં છેલ્લા 24 કલાકમાં 275 કેસ નોંધાયા
▪રાજ્યનો કુલ મૃત્યુઆંક: 802
▪રાજ્યમાં સક્રિય કેસ: 6591
▪કુલ 5880 દર્દીઓને ડિસ્ચાર્જ કરાયા#COVIDー19 pic.twitter.com/alXLMEkXoT— DD News Gujarati (@DDNewsGujarati) May 22, 2020
The other major government facilities where coronavirus patients are being treated in Ahmedabad are the Sola civil hospital and the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (SVP) Hospital.
Till May 20, as many as 351 COVID-19 patients died at the civil hospital, while 338 have been discharged from there after recovery so far, according to the data provided by the AMC.
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This data suggested that unlike the other two hospitals in the city, more people with COVID-19 had died than recovered and given discharge from the civil hospital.
Congress MLA from Ahmedabad Gyasuddin Shaikh on Tuesday raised questions on the high mortality and low discharge rate at the civil hospital, and sought the intervention of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in the matter.
In a letter to the NHRC, Shaikh had alleged that negligence and improper treatment given to COVID-19 patients in the Ahmedabad civil hospital is leading to high number of deaths.
87 GCRI staffers test positive in 40 days
Eighty-seven staffers of the Gujarat Cancer Research Institute (GCRI) have tested positive for novel coronavirus in the last 40 days, its deputy director Pariseema Dave said on Friday.
A premier cancer institute jointly managed by the state government and the Gujarat Cancer Society, GCRI, situated in the sprawling campus of the civil hospital in Asarwa here, has been designated as a facility for COVID-19 treatment.
“Over a period of 40 days, 87 of our staff have tested positive for novel coronavirus. They include over 20 doctors, nurses and other staff members. Majority of them were asymptomatic and found positive after testing. Barring a nurse, everyone who tested positive before 10 days have recovered and been discharged,” Dave said.
GCRI is also a regional cancer centre of the Union government getting assistance under National Cancer Control Programme.
