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Covid-19: Experts stress on strategies to tackle infections in kids with pre-existing co-morbidities
The ongoing second wave of Covid-19, in which number of children affected have seen a rise, has alerted the country s health experts to stress on ways to handle children, with pre-existing co-morbidities, who have been infected with the deadly virus.
ANI | New Delhi | Updated: 22-05-2021 14:40 IST | Created: 22-05-2021 14:40 IST
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By Joymala Bagchi The ongoing second wave of Covid-19, in which number of children affected have seen a rise, has alerted the country s health experts to stress on ways to handle children, with pre-existing co-morbidities, who have been infected with the deadly virus.
The ongoing second wave of Covid-19, in which number of children affected have seen a rise, has alerted the country s health experts to stress on ways to handle children, with pre-existing co-morbidities, who have been infected with the deadly virus. In India, 26 per cent of the population is less than 14 years of age and nearly seven per cent are less than five-years-old. Prof Sheffali Gulati, a Child neurologist at All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi told ANI, What we are stressing at is how to handle the risk of children with pre-existing co-morbidities. Their risk stratification should be done because just like adults children are also not devoid of co-morbid conditions. There are children who are having a neurological problem or under long term medication for which they are given steroids. So we have to think in a different way for them.
Oxygen shortage has turned out to be a huge challenge amid Covid crisis. (Representational)
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Raghav Chadha said five oxygen cylinders have been arranged
12 people died on Saturday at Batra Hospital due to oxygen shortage
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A children s hospital in Delhi sent out a desperate appeal for help on Twitter this morning and said it was running out of medical oxygen, a day after the national capital witnessed a tragedy when 12 people, including a doctor, died due to oxygen shortage at Batra Hospital. Tens of thousands of fresh Covid infections added to the national capital s caseload in the last few weeks have overburdened the hospitals that are now scrambling for resources.