COVID-19 patients
Covid treatment: KMCH starts clinical trial of Favipiravir drug
Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) has started the clinical trial of Japan’s Favipiravir drug to assess its safety and efficacy in treating Covid-19 patients.
How small teams embedded in communities can ease pressure on healthcare systems
The Community Support Teams (CST) has been working to preserve hospital capacity by slowing down coronavirus transmission at the community level through targeted home isolation and family quarantine for symptomatic individuals combined with the promotion of public mask-wearing.
Summers could soon be ‘too hot for humans’
Global warming will increase the chances of summer conditions that may be "too hot for humans" to work in, exposing millions of people to potentially life threatening conditions.
A study published earlier this year warned that heat stress could affect as many as 1.2bn people by 2100, four times more than now, reports BBC.
Millions around the world could be exposed to dangerous levels of heat stress - a dangerous condition which can cause organs to shut down.
Covid-19 patients may loss immunity in months: UK study
Covid-19 patients, who have recovered, could lose their immunity to the disease within months and that the virus could reinfect people year after year, like common colds, scientists say.
Signed MoU with Regent Hospital on condition of license renewal: DGHS
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Saturday clarified its stance over the Regent Hospital scam and said the much-questioned Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed with the hospital on condition of renewal of its license.
Expand oxygen supply for Covid-19 patients: GM Quader
Jatiya Party chairman Ghulam Muhammed Quader on Sunday demanded expanding the oxygen supply for the Covid-19 patients across the country alongside ramping up testing.
India’s coronavirus cases spike to near half-million
India’s coronavirus cases reached near a half a million with the detection of 17,296 news infections in the last 24 hours, the biggest spike in a day.
With the surge in number of Covid-19 patients, it has delayed in resumption of regular train services by more than a month.
With the detection of 17,296 cases, India's total cases rose to 490,401 while the country’s Health Ministry also reported another 407 deaths in the past 24 hours, taking total fatalities up to 15,301.
The ministry said the recovery rate was continuing to improve at 57.43%. Also, deaths per 100,000 stood at 1.86 against the world average of 6.24 per 100,000, it said.
The actual numbers of infections and deaths from COVID-19, like elsewhere in the world, are thought to be far higher due to a number of reasons including limited testing.
Indian Railways was due to resume regular train services on June 30 but said Thursday that services wouldn't fully resume until Aug. 12. Trains had been halted when the government declared a nationwide lockdown in late March. Special trains linking main cities have been running since mid-May as part of easing of the lockdown.
Domestic flights have resumed on selected routes, but a government decision on restarting international flights is expected next month.
MFF donates $11,250 for COVID-19 patients in CMCH
United States-based charity organisation Meah Family Foundation (MFF) has donated $11,250 as support to the Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) for treatments of COVID-19 patients.
Corona patients’ admission to the hospital becomes nightmare: Fakhrul
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir voiced concern over people’s sufferings in receiving treatment, saying taking admission to hospitals by coronavirus-infected patients has become a nightmare.
KMCH starts Plasma Therapy for experimental treatment of Covid-19 patients
After Dhaka Medical College Hospital, now Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) has started Convalescent Plasma Therapy (CPT) on experimental basis, aiming to save lives of Covid-19 infected patients.
A physician, who had recovered from coronavirus, donated his plasmas to KMCH for the first time on Thursday night.
A medical team led by Dr SM Tushar Alam, head of blood transfusion department of the hospital, administered CPT to treat a coronavirus infected patient at the hospital.
Sources said, Dr Mohammad Manjurul, an intern of Sir Salimullah Medical College and Hospital and a resident of Bagerhat, donated his plasmas at the blood bank of the hospital.
Dr Manjurul was found infected with coronavirus in April and later he recovered.
Prof. Dr Mohammad Abdul Ahad of Khulna Medical College, director of KMCH, Dr Munshi Reza Sekendar, coordinator of Coronavirus prevention and treatment management committee, Dr Mehedi Newaz, Focal person of Corona Dedicated hospital Dr Farid Uddin Ahmed, Dr Shoilendranath Biswas and Dr Firoz were present there.
Dr SM Tushar Alam, said, “ Convalescent Plasma Therapy (CPT) has started at the hospital and we hope we’ll see positive change in the patient within one or two days.”
Plasma is the liquid portion of blood that remains when all red and white blood cells and platelets have been removed. CPT is extracting blood plasma from an individual who has recovered from coronavirus illness and transfusing it into a patient who is sick.
CPT is, by far, the oldest treatment being tested to battle COVID-19, being successful in cases during the previous coronavirus outbreaks such as the Sars epidemic in 2003 and the Ebola virus outbreak in 2013. Physicians used CPT effectively before the specific treatment was developed for H1N1 influenza (Spanish virus), SARS-1 and MERS virus.
Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) started collecting plasmas from COVID-19 recovered donors. Earlier, CPT was used for treating a COVID-19 patient for the first time in Bangladesh at the Evercare Hospital Dhaka (formerly known as Apollo Hospital) on May 6.
In Bangladesh, a national technical subcommittee for the plasma treatment under the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) was formed in early April and DMCH’s blood transfusion department decided on April 28 to explore CPT to treat COVID-19 patients.