Recently, Saurashtra University had conducted a survey where a section of respondents had claimed to have developed a negative mindset and imaginary fear due to Covid.
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Medical Feat! Doctors at Aster CMI Hospital successfully remove 3.5 kg crippling tumour from a 15-year-old girl’s neck
Bangalore : For, 15-year-old Surbhi Ben, who hails from Amerli district in Gujarat, her entire childhood was marked by endless visits to the hospitals, consultations with the doctors, several tests and endless derogatory remarks from locals and strangers for her ungainly looks due to a football-sized tumour that was stuck on her neck. Extending from her neck onto her chest, the benign tumour which had affected Surbhi’s life for more than a decade, is now identified by the doctors as fibromatosis.
Stay +ve, get -ve
Don’t panic if your RT-PCR test shows a
positive result, say doctors and offer practical tips to beat the virus
When hospitals around the city ran out of beds, doctors said that not every patient of covid requires hospitalisation and most cases with mild symptoms can be treated at home. The key point that the doctors made was that “staying cool” and “being positive” are very important to beat covid infections.
Health Minister
Dr K Sudhakar said that only extreme cases of covid patients need to be shifted to hospitals and beds can be made available for these severe cases only. Revenue Minister
For clearer picture, docs pick CT scan over RT-PCR
For clearer picture, docs pick CT scan over RT-PCR
BySridhar VivanSridhar Vivan / Updated: Apr 19, 2021, 06:00 IST
Doctors recommend
covid infection
The Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (
RT-PCR) is popularly considered to be the ‘golden standard’ to detect covid cases. However, with a rise in
false negatives, doctors across the city are now increasingly depending on CT scans of the thorax as it gives a clear picture of the viral infection.
A city-based doctor said, “Whenever people visit me with a fever, I recommend they take an RT-PCR test. But, many refuse to take it due to the stigma attached. So I ask them to immediately go for a scan that can give the correct picture. There are ample examples (with RT-PCR) where the patient tests negative (at first). With an early CT scan report, we can identify the infection early and begin the treatment. We have seen instances of deaths due to late treatment as