Surat: While scarcity of life-saving injection including remdesivir and tocilizumab have kept Covid patients and their relatives in tenterhooks, doctors treating infected patients are also prescribing methylene blue injections.
“The oxygen carrying capacity of red blood cells increases after being administered methylene blue. We used it last year too during the first wave and are prescribing this time as well because we are seeing good results,” said Dr Umesh Shah who treats Covid patients at a private multispecialty hospital in Adajan.
Usually methylene blue is being administered by doctors to patients having mild to moderate symptoms. It is used for methemoglobinemia, a condition of elevated methemoglobin wherein the oxygen is not carried to the tissues.
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Both pleaded guilty but disputed some of the facts of the case. As part of the mitigating circumstances for sentencing both had said they were under duress after being contacted by a Colombian drug cartel and threats against their families. Patel had organised to meet the officer in a car park in the suburb of Petone in December 2017. Galicia Romero drove all three men there then went to a nearby shop while Narváez Chamorro remained in the car. They appealed their initial sentences of four years and 10 months for Narváez Chamorro and three years and six months for Galicia Romero. They said the sentences were manifestly excessive and the judge should have found lower starting points before applying greater discounts based on the duress the two men were under.
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Ahmedabad: Covid test in a medical officer returned presence of cancer and tuberculosis. The doctor had got Covid in May as she went to houses convincing Covid patients to get admitted in hospitals and prevent it from spreading.
Dr Rupal Manghani had a huge shock when a CT scan done to check the effect of Covid in her lungs found a breast tumour which was malignant. The one glimmer of hope was that the breast cancer was in the first stage, according to a Times of India report. The doctor got her breast removed after recovering from both Covid and cancer and she was back at work, sending teams to the Covid-affected people.