NAGPURIANS have got a reason
to smile. The recovery rate of the
COVID-19 positive patients in
Nagpur is best in the entire country. About 74 per cent people in
the city who had tested positive
for coronavirus have recovered
and gone home, informed Dr
Nitin Raut, Guardian Minister.
He made the statement based
on statistics. As many as 290
patients who had tested positive
for coronavirus have recovered
till date. The cumulative figure
of corona positive cases now is
397.
Talking to ‘The Hitavada’ Dr
Raut said,
“The recovery rate of
India is 40.4 percent and
Maharashtra registered 26.3 percent. In comparison to this statistics, Nagpur is doing exceedingly well.”
On Friday, 10 persons became
corona-free. Out of these ten,
three were discharged from
IGGMCH while 7 got discharge
from Government Medical
College and Hospital (GMCH).
Most of these people who have
recovered are either from
Satranjipura or Mominpura.
With the recovery of 10 persons,
total number of people discharged reached the 290.
The
number of patients recovered
from GMCH reached 152 while
the IGGMCH number reached
138. Two tested positive in
IGGMCH, both are residents of
Gaddigodam.
Similarly, one sample that tested positive was examined at the
laboratory at National
Environmental and Engineering
Research Institute (NEERI).
Admiring the efforts of frontline healthworkers, Dr Raut said,
“In a short span of time our doctors developed the COVID-19
facility. For this, GMCH converted its Trauma Care Centre
into a well-equipped hospital
dedicated to patients treated for
coronavirus.
IGGMCH also came up with
600-bed facility separately for
such patients.”
As per the statistics compiled
by Nagpur Municipal
Corporation (NMC), cumulative
number of people testing negative reached 4,485. Total active
cases in city are 104.
The spurt in number of positive cases in recent past is
because of increase in number
of diagnostic laboratories in city.
At present Nagpur has five
laboratoriesinGovernmentsetup and one is Dhruv Pathology
whichisprivate. Onemorelaboratory is coming up at
Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj
Nagpur University. With more
number of laboratories more
tests were conducted.
Apart from that, the steps
taken by administration
like sealing the areas, putting
some parts of city under containment, restricting public
movementshelpeda lotinpreventing further spread of the
virus.
Thenewguidelinesissuedby
Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare wherein patients were
declared recovered within ten
days, helped increase in numberofpeop