Photo Credits: The plight of the patients at the GMC Covid ward.
THURSDAY CASES
639
DEATHS ON THURSDAY
06
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PANAJI
Amidst the surge in the pandemic across Goa, Covid has hit hard a family in Panaji with 14 of its members contracting the feared virus. The cases came to light on Wednesday.
A 4-year-old child, the child's grandfather and grandmother are among the 14 members of the family who have tested positive to Covid-19. Covid-positive cases reported in the capital city were 42 on Wednesday while it was on a slight lower side on Thursday with count at 32 positive cases
Meanwhile, Thursday continued to paint Goa's COVID-19 situation grimmer with six more deaths and 639 fresh cases adding to the State's pandemic tally.
The cumulative death toll added up to 268 and three of the six deaths on Thursday were cases where the victims were declared 'dead at admission' raising serious questions over the strategy for testing as well as medical management of positive patients, including the 'home isolation' SOP adopted by the State.
Health Department officials said, all these three 'dead-at-admission' victims hailed from Salcete - a 48-year-old man from Margao, a 53-year-old woman from Verna and a 65-year-old man from Nuvem. They were brought to the South Goa District Hospital and tested positive in the post-mortem autopsy examination.
Also, two other victims of Thursday's six were certified dead soon after admission. A 45-year-old man from Merces died less than half-an-hour after admission and a 63-year-old Pernem lady succumbed hours after getting to the hospital.
Meanwhile, active Covid-19 cases in the State mounted to 5,030 with Thursday's 639 new patients taking Goa's confirmed cases aggregate to 22,890.
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Not just medics,
some patients
too face mess
at GMC wards
PANAJI: It's not just the medics and other staff who are facing the brunt of poor co-ordination and management of day-to-day functioning of the Covid-19 wards at the Goa Medical College and Hospital.
Patients too have to bear with discomfiture and make do with lying on the floor as beds have run out.
In one of the wards, while some patients had to lie on the floor over a bedsheet sans even a mattress, others had to make do with medical examination chairs to lie on.
