Meghalaya: A geologist and a BSF jawan succumbed to COVID-19 at NEIGRIHMS, death toll rises to 4
Two patients including a Geological Survey of India (GSI) officer and a BSF jawan died at the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health & Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) taking the state’s COVID-19 fatalities to 4 on Sunday.
Confirming this, Director of NEIGRIHMS, Dr P Bhattacharyya said, “Both are COVID-19 patients and have died due to reaction to the virus. While one passed away at around 1.30 am, the other died after two hours later.”
He said the 45-year-old BSF jawan from Tura was referred to the COVID Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of NEIGRIHMS after he was tested positive and start developing problems. “He was kept on ventilator from the day he was admitted to the ICU,” Dr Bhattacharyya said.
The Director said the other, a 35-year-old was a patient who had originally come for a surgery and later tested to be positive for COVID-19. The patient was kept in isolation and when his condition start deteriorating, he was also transferred to the COVID-ICU.
“The patient was subsequently found to be non-infected after his RT-PCR tests came out negative twice. When his condition got worst, he went on ventilator. He died as a COVID-19 patient with complication as his organs were damaged,” he said.
Asked, Dr Bhattacharyya said the virus infection causes reaction in the body which affected different organs such as liver, kidney, heart etc.
The patient was a GSI officer.
With this, the death toll due to COVID-19 in Meghalaya has gone up to 4, which include a 69-year-old senior doctor and an eight-month-old baby,
The state has so far registered 418 COVID-19 cases that include 367 active cases and 49 recovered from the viral infection.
Over 240 BSF jawans have contracted the infection.
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