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Covid-dengue ‘co-infections’ are Bengal’s new challenge as doctors say treatment very tricky
Bengal has started to see dengue infection in Covid patients. Doctors say they need to be very alert while handling co-infection cases. Mamata govt has issued guidelines.
Madhuparna Das 8 August, 2020 10:33 am IST
Kolkata: The complexities around Covid-19 are confounding doctors and governments across the world. But West Bengal is now facing a challenging albeit entirely predictable complication — Covid and dengue ‘co-infections’ amid the onset of the tropical disease’s season.
The state, which is in the midst of a worsening Covid outbreak, has now started to see these co-infections. While any official number of such patients is not available as of now, several hospitals said patients testing positive for Covid are later being diagnosed with dengue infection too, or vice-versa.
According to experts, this creates an extremely critical condition in patients as Covid causes blood to clump while dengue causes bleeding that does not allow blood to clot. This creates an extremely critical condition in a patient.
The Mamata Banerjee government last week issued guidelines and protocols to hospitals for treating such cases...
Covid-dengue ‘co-infections’ are Bengal’s new challenge as doctors say treatment very tricky
Bengal has started to see dengue infection in Covid patients. Doctors say they need to be very alert while handling co-infection cases. Mamata govt has issued guidelines.
Madhuparna Das 8 August, 2020 10:33 am IST
Kolkata: The complexities around Covid-19 are confounding doctors and governments across the world. But West Bengal is now facing a challenging albeit entirely predictable complication — Covid and dengue ‘co-infections’ amid the onset of the tropical disease’s season.
The state, which is in the midst of a worsening Covid outbreak, has now started to see these co-infections. While any official number of such patients is not available as of now, several hospitals said patients testing positive for Covid are later being diagnosed with dengue infection too, or vice-versa.
According to experts, this creates an extremely critical condition in patients as Covid causes blood to clump while dengue causes bleeding that does not allow blood to clot. This creates an extremely critical condition in a patient.
The Mamata Banerjee government last week issued guidelines and protocols to hospitals for treating such cases...