a stranger saved him. months before the coronavirus pandemic, his health began to deteriorate. he was told he needed a new kidney and was put on the transplant waiting list. as someone waiting for an organ, you are already vulnerable, so the idea of going into a hospital to have an operation is terrifying, especially when you know that those hospitals are full of covid patients. when the first coronavirus wave struck the uk last march, it significantly disrupted nhs services. already a particularly complex area of medicine, organ transplants became even more challenging. stretched resources and fears about patients safety led to the number of operations falling significantly. new figures show 474 people in the uk died last year while waiting for an organ, a 26% increase compared
Vietnam recorded 50 more COVID-19 infections, including two imported cases, during the past six hours to 12:00 pm on June 2, lifting the national tally to 7,675, according to the Ministry of Health.
us. obviously india devastated under this coronavirus wave, but at the same time, you re also having to deal with black fungus which is also in many ways becoming an epidemic. tell us how bad it is. it is bad. as i understand, last night the figures were close to 9,000 and counting. so that s humongous in terms of the whole country seeing nearly 9,000 cases in just last two to three weeks. and in this second wave, there seems to be a double whammy for the country dealing with pandemic and notifiable diseases in several states across the country already. we re trying to see why this is happening, specifically in this part of the world, and besides these the low hanging hypothesis like dieabetes, control of sugars and use of steroids indiscriminately, there seems to be some more factors
Vasanti Nair in Surat
SURAT: For the past three decades, this ‘florence nightingale’ of Surat has been a pillar of support to the caregivers of New Civil Hospital. But when it came to the battle times with the pandemic, Vasanti Nair, head nurse at NCH showed her steely grit behind the starched uniform. Despite contacting Covid twice in the past one year, the ‘unputdownable’ 53-year-old returned to duty on Monday, two days before International Nurses Day.
Nair, a patient of thyroid and rheumatoid arthritis, has been on medication for many years now. She has, however, refused to to take a break till the coronavirus wave is controlled. Her daughter too suffered from Covid twice.