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Strokes, heart attacks: For some, Covid recovery not the end of story | Goa News – In Goa 24×7
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While Goa Medical College (GMC) has started collecting data of patients with post-Covid-19 complications, doctors said that they have been seeing patients with a history of Covid-19 suffering a wide range of serious complications.
“As per guidelines, Covid-19 patients are put on blood thinners, yet in some cases, after recovery or at the time of discharge, we have seen an increase in blood clotting that can lead to complicating conditions. Some suffer while undergoing treatment for Covid-19, and some after their recovery,” said Dr Vinayaga Pandian, a consulting cardiologist at Victor Hospital.
Pandian said that one of his senior citizen patients suffered a stroke while still recovering from Covid-19, causing paralysis.
GMC consulting cardiologist Dr Manjunath Desai said that a pulmonary embolism (which can also occur post-Covid) is a rare condition and sometimes can be worse than a heart attack. It is difficult to treat and at times can lead to permanent disability and heart failure, he said.
“We treated a 40-year-old patient who had a pulmonary embolism. He was picked up on time for treatment, as he came from a family of doctors,” Pandian said.
Overall, Desai said that in Goa, they have seen relatively young as well as aged patients having post-Covid heart attacks, and they have been treated successfully.
“Though there is a temporal relation between a patient suffering a heart attack or stroke and his Covid history, I cannot say with certainty that the patients in question would not have suffered a heart failure had they not contracted the virus, until proven by a study,” Desai said.
Dr Chitralekha Nayak, a consulting physician at Healthway Hospital, said while during the first wave of the pandemic, she saw several cases of heart attacks or stroke after patients had Covid-19, during the ongoing wave, she has seen some peculiar cases of patients having a low-grade fever even after twenty-days of Covid-19.
Though their condition was not life-threatening, they still needed to be investigated and put on a short course of steroids, Nayak said.
She however stressed that more research needs to be done on this mutation of the virus.
“The virus has become very severe, patients are either surviving or dying, even some of those who came on time for treatment,” she said. “Some do not respond to treatment. Those patients probably required oxygen to be given early. Initially, we saw patients’ oxygen levels dropping on the ninth day of the infection, but this time, some had their oxygen dropping on the seventh day itself.”
People having underlying health conditions and falling in the high-risk category — those with diabetes, high cholesterol or other comorbidities — or even people with healthy lifestyles but who are unaware of their condition as no tests were done till the problem surfaced, also face risks of developing blood clots.
Pandian said that during the pre-Covid era, people could choose to ignore any symptoms of a heart ailment or any discomfort for a day or two, but not anymore. “Now if you are unwell and you decide to put off seeing a doctor even for a day, chances are that you might not live to see the next day, or land with complications,” he said.
People should not underestimate symptoms like breathlessness, chest pain, vague headache, vision disturbance, or any vague indicators — sweating profusely, drop in energy levels, abdominal pain, doctors say, adding that it is better to investigate these conditions thoroughly.
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Broke Swiggy guy walks 3 km to deliver food, Social media helps him find better job. Heartwarming story is viral
Social media can be a wondrous place at times. While on most days, its ugly face is on display, on days like today, it sets examples of the power of kindness. In a social media post, a LinkedIn user shared how a delivery executive, in need of money and a better job, bagged one after the users on the platform came together to help the person out.
Priyanshi Chandel, Marketing Manager at tech company Flash, shared an incident about a Swiggy delivery agent who had come to deliver food at her residence. When she asked the late and out-of-breath delivery person, identified by her as Sahil Singh, about what happened, he told her that he had no transport and had to walk 3 km to deliver the order.
He also said that he was out of money and had nothing left to pay his landlord too. Singh told her that he was not looking for money from her but requested her to help him bag a job. He said that he had a degree in Electrical and Communication Engineering, and had worked with Byju’s and Ninjacart before. He had to move back to Jammu during the pandemic.
“I have not eaten for a week, just drinking water and tea to get by. I am not asking for anything, please if you can find me a job, I used to make 25k before, I am 30 years old, my parents are getting old and I can’t keep asking for money from them (sic),” Chandel quoted saying.
She also shared his marksheets and contact number for people to help. His details shared show that he is a 2018 BTech graduate from Mewar University, and completed his schooling from the Jammu and Kashmir state board.
After she shared the details, the comments section was filled with people who stepped up to help. While someone recharged his Yulu account so that he did not have to walk around to deliver food, someone offered a place to stay. Many offered to help him with his applications, while some offered jobs too.
Chandel, later on put an update on the post, and said that he received a job.
However, so far it is unclear what job he has received.
2023 has so far been a year of job losses, an eventual outcome of the pandemic and increased hiring by tech companies. For instance, the SSC MTS 2023 recruitment exam that took place in Uttar Pradesh in May saw over 55 lakh applications for Group D jobs. Numerous candidates who applied for positions such as peon, watchman, gardener had educational backgrounds like BTech, MBA, and Master’s degrees.
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While briefing the media, Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra informed that the elections in the poll-bound States will commence from February 10, 2022, to March 7, 2022. Elections in the State of Uttar Pradesh will be conducted in 7 phases, followed by Manipur with 2 phases. Elections in Goa, Uttarkhand and Punjab will be conducted in a single phase.
According to the Election Commission of India, the votes will be counted on March 10, 2022. ECI informed that all physical campaigning will be ceased until January 15, 2022, in light of the rising cases of Coronavirus.
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