Move to map COVID19 aftereffects
Doctors flag complications, including induced diabetes, impaired lung function
Even as the fight against the pandemic continues, data is now being collected from across India on the medical complications that recovered patients are suffering from, including COVID19induced diabetes, impaired lung, heart, liver and brain functions along with acute fatigue and dyspnea, after doctors and hospitals indicated this trend. The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) is collecting data from leading Central government hospitals, including Safdarjung, Ram Manohar Lohia and AIIMS, and across India.Care strategy The Health Ministry said the data would help them come out with guidelines on further care and treatment of those who had recovered. The Ministry pointed out that 86% of the COVID19cases in the country were reported from 10 States, with Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu accounting for 50%; the overall recovery rate had climbed from 47.6% (May 31) to 63.02% currently. Leading physicians from across the country have indicated that they are seeing some worrying medical complications among the recovered patients.Cardiologist Dr. Balbir Singh stated that patients were taking a “long time to fully recover and they often complain of feeling lethargic, completely drained out, mentally depressed with the inability to concentrate. In those who developed pneumonia, lung function improves within some months of recovery but some may not normalise due to the fi
brosis.’’ Dr. Ambuj Roy from the Department of Cardiology of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, said that there were possibilities of longterm lung function deterioration and vascular diseases.
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