New Delhi: With a significant number of recovered patients complaining of breathlessness, fatigue and body aches, authorities at the Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital here have said they can consider opening a post-COVID-19 ward to provide better treatment to such people.
The hospital opened a post-COVID-19 clinic on August 20 after several recovered patients called up Dr Ajit Jain, the nodal officer for coronavirus, complaining about symptoms that lingered on for weeks after recovery.
“Around 1,500 COVID-19 patients have been discharged from the hospital since March 17.
“This is how we got to know that a few recovered patients were suffering from long-term complications like anxiety, breathlessness, insomnia.”
We will have to open a post COVID ward if the number goes up,” Jain said.