{"id":9365,"date":"2020-07-26T06:51:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T06:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=9365"},"modified":"2020-07-26T06:51:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T06:51:12","slug":"oldies-recovery-spreads-hope-after-virus-arrest-kolkata-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=9365","title":{"rendered":"Oldies\u2019 recovery spreads hope after virus arrest | Kolkata News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>KOLKATA: The recovery of elderly residents of an old age home in Salt Lake adds a glimmer of hope for the Covid-affected. The management of the senior citizens\u2019 home said state health secretary N S Nigam personally supervised the mass testing of the 43 inmates on July 7, their treatment and strict isolation, knowing that most of these aged people had co-morbid conditions and were in the high-risk group. <br \/>Ten inmates of Bairag, the old age home run by NGO Saptadweepa, in Salt Lake\u2019s IB Block, had tested positive and eight beat the disease. Five of the 10 members who tested <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/coronavirus\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/coronavirus\" frmappuse=\"1\">Covid<\/a> positive were aged between 70 and 80. One was a cancer survivor and another had undergone bypass surgery. \u201cMost of the inmates have chronic diseases. They have now beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/deadly-virus\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_deadly-virus\" frmappuse=\"1\">deadly virus<\/a> and tested negative for Covid-19,\u201d said Shakuntala Patnaik, president, Saptadweepa. IB Block has remained a containment zone since the death of the first elderly. <br \/>Ranjit Chakraborty (70), who suffers from diabetes and hypertension, was admitted to CNCI, New Town, along with two others. They returned on Tuesday. He said, \u201cWe were looked after well by the state healthcare workers and are safely back at Bairag now.\u201d <br \/>Five others were in the home\u2019s care, monitored by the health department while in isolation at the Saptadweepa\u2019s second campus, <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Pushparghya\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_Pushparghya\" frmappuse=\"1\">Pushparghya<\/a> in HB block. \u201cThey all fought off the virus without any antiviral therapy or medication,\u201d Patnaik said. <br \/>The first among the inmates to have tested Covid positive died on July 5, a day after he was admitted to AMRI, Salt Lake. The 95-year-old had mild symptoms of fever and cough, but was taken to the hospital after he fell and broke his limb on July 3. He tested positive at the hospital. Another inmate, aged 90, died on his way to Apollo hospital. He had tested positive when mass swab tests were conducted at old age homes, at the behest of the health secretary. <br \/>\u201cAfter the two deaths, we were feeling quite hopeless knowing that people older than 65 tend to experience more severe Covid-19 symptoms. We informed Nigam and he organized everything \u2014 from mass testing to hospital admissions and the monitoring of those in isolation. We were expecting the worst. Much to our relief, even those with severe co-morbidity issues survived the infection,\u201d Patnaik said. <br \/>The rest, who tested negative, are not letting their guard down and are mostly confined to their rooms. When out of their rooms, they wear masks and maintain social distancing. <\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/oldies-recovery-spreads-hope-after-virus-arrest\/articleshow\/77116563.cms\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: The recovery of elderly residents of an old age home in Salt Lake adds a glimmer of hope for the Covid-affected. The management of the senior citizens\u2019 home said state health secretary N S Nigam personally supervised the mass testing of the 43 inmates on July 7, their treatment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1595746281_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}