Kaniyawala during his stay in the hospital
SURAT: Forty-five agonising days on a ventilator, a tracheostomy and numerous injections to ensure his blood did not thicken killing him – Chintesh Kaniyawala from Surat braved all this to emerge victorious against Covid-19 after a 119-day hospital stay. The nearly four-month long hospital stay is the longest in the state so far.
Kaniyawala (45) is a businessman from Surat’s Begampura area emerged victorious and smiling from the Kiran Multispeciality Hospital where he was admitted on August 18 as a Covid-19 patient with 40 per cent lung involvement.
Before Kaniyawala, Devendra Parmar (60) from Dholka had to spend 113 days in the Sola Civil Hospital to tide over a Covid-19 infection. Prominent Congress leader and former union minister Bharatsinh Solanki had spend 102 days in hospital before being discharged.