This story is from August 24, 2020

Over 60% of Goa’s Covid fatalities occured this month

The state saw 90 Covid mortalities reported in the first three weeks of August. Forty of these deaths occurred in the third week of the month alone.
Over 60% of Goa’s Covid fatalities occured this month
Dean GMC Dr S Bandekar attributed the deaths to patients reporting very late and said if Covid pneumonia is treated in the first week with Remdesivir and plasma the disease can be easily conquered
PANAJI: The state saw 90 Covid mortalities reported in the first three weeks of August. Forty of these deaths occurred in the third week of the month alone.
Vasco continued to lead with 25% of the fatalities being reported from the port town. Margao accounted for 20% and Ponda 10% of the mortalities.
Not a single day in the month has gone by without a death reported. In fact some days this month have had as many as nine mortalities reported with some positives declared brought dead.

Others were declared positive for the virus following post mortem reports.
Dean Goa medical college Dr S Bandekar attributed the Covid deaths to patients reporting very late.
“There is something called missing the bus. If you can treat someone with Covid pneumonia with Remdesivir and plasma in the first week you can readily conquer the disease in no time. The same thing happened with the VIP (Shripad Naik). Most people dying are reaching the hospital very late. Some have come after ten days,” he told reporters.
He added that the recovery rate in the state is very good at 79 percent and stated that Goa’s death rate is less than one percent.

Health minister Vishwajit Rane on Friday told reporters that the government will be making three wards in GMC fully operational by Monday to treat high risk and critical cases that cannot be accommodated in the state’s 220-bed hospital in Margao.
Citing the shortage of ICU nurses he said the government would be recruiting more to manage ICU patients. The plan, he said, is to have one nurse for three to four patients. Despite getting staff on board, the government is still short as nurses are getting infected and others are put on rotation.
Rane said the state has met the requirement of ventilators. “For 14 lakh population there should be 200 ventilators. We have 270,” he said.
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