Doctor dies at Pune’s Sassoon hospital after testing Covid-19 positive

A 56-year old general practitioner doctor from Maharashtra’s Keshavnagar, who practised in Ghorpadegaon, died at Sassoon general hospital on Friday after testing positive for Covid-19.

The doctor was undergoing treatment and was in a critical condition, he was admitted to Sassoon hospital on May 13 and was declared dead on Friday at 4:30 pm. This is the first death of a doctor in Pune due to Covid-19.

Pune municipal corporation (PMC) chief health officer Dr Ramchandra Hankare said, the doctor has been declared dead and was undergoing treatment at Sassoon Hospital.

“The news of a doctor’s death could lead to fear among the medical community, especially the general physicians, most of whom have already shut their clinics,” Hankare said.

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According to Sassoon official records, the cause of the doctor’s death is acute respiratory failure due to Covid-19 positive bilateral pneumonitis, acute respiratory syndrome, myocarditis, and acute kidney injury.

The doctor was also one of the first Covid-19 patients who was being administered Tocilizumab which has been recommended as one of the effective drugs against Covid-19.

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